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striker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Striker \Strik"er\, n.
One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.
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A harpoon; also, a harpooner.
Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try fish.
--Dampier. A wencher; a lewd man. [Obs.]
--Massinger.A workman who is on a strike.
A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought. [Political Cant]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "vagabond," agent noun from strike (v.). From mid-15c. as "coiner;" 1580s as "fighter;" 1850 as "worker on strike;" 1963 as a soccer position.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An individual who is on strike. 2 Someone or something that hits someone or something else. 3 # A blacksmith's assistant who wields the sledgehammer. 4 (context soccer English) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
WordNet
n. a forward on a soccer team
someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating
an employee on strike against an employer
someone who hits; "a hard hitter"; "a fine striker of the ball"; "blacksmiths are good hitters" [syn: hitter]
the part of a mechanical device that strikes something
Wikipedia
Striker or The Strikers may refer to:
Striker is a soccer video game series first released by Rage Software in 1992.
Year
Title
System
Developer
Publisher
Regio
1992
Striker
Amiga
Rage Software
Rage Software
PAL
1992
Striker
Atari ST
Rage Software
Rage Software
PAL
1992
Striker
Super NES
Rage Software
Elite System
PAL
1993
Ultimate Soccer
Game Gear
Rage Software
Sega
PAL, Japan
1993
World Soccer '94: Road to Glory
Super NES
Rage Software
Atlus
NTSC
1993
World Soccer
Super Famicom
Rage Software
Coconot
Japan
1993
Ultimate Soccer
Master System
Rage Software
Sega
PAL
1993
Ultimate Soccer
Mega Drive
Rage Software
Sega
PAL
1993
Striker
DOS
Rage Software
Rage Software
PAL
1993
Eric Cantona Football Challenge
Super NES
Rage Software
Rage Software
PAL (France only)
1994
Striker
Amiga CD32
Rage Software
GBH Gold
PAL
1995
Striker
Game Gear
Rage Software
SEGA
PAL
1995
Striker
Mega Drive
Rage Software
SEGA
PAL
1996
Striker '96
| Sega Saturn / PlayStation / MS-DOS
Rage Software
Acclaim
PAL
1999
Striker Pro 2000
PlayStation
Rage Software
Infogrames
NTSC
2000
UEFA Striker
Dreamcast
Rage Software
Infogrames
PAL
Later also for the Commodore Amiga, Amiga CD32, Atari ST, PC, Mega Drive/Genesis, and Super NES. It was bundled in one of the Amiga 1200 launch packs. It was one of the first soccer games to feature a 3D viewpoint, after Simulmondo's I Play 3D Soccer.
In 1993 it was released in Japan by Coconuts Japan for the Super Famicom as , while the French Super NES version of Striker is known as Eric Cantona Football Challenge, playing on the popularity of French forward Eric Cantona, while the North American Super NES release of Striker was known as World Soccer '94: Road to Glory. The Mega Drive and Game Gear versions were branded as Sega Sports Striker. They were published by SEGA and developed by Rage Software in 1994 and released in 1995.
Striker is a fictional British comic strip and former magazine, which is created by Pete Nash and features in the British tabloid newspaper The Sun. The strip first appeared in The Sun on Monday November 11, 1985 and ran in the newspaper daily until August 2003, when the author decided to launch the strip as a weekly independent comic book. However, the strip returned to the The Sun during October 2005, after the comic book had published 87 issues and suffered financial problems. Over the four years the newspaper strip was published daily until the end of September 2009, when it transpired that Nash had served a years notice to bring the strip to a conclusion. However, Striker returned on January 26, 2010, as a full-page comic strip in the weekly UK lads magazine Nuts, where it was published as a weekly strip until October 2010. It subsequently went unpublished until January 7, 2013, when it started to be published in The Sun newspaper. Over the next three years it was published seven days a week, before it was announced that Striker would no longer be published in the paper after February 13, 2016. Later that year, it was announced that the strip would be brought back to the paper by popular demand, with matches shown live on the internet for the first time.
When it was first published, the strip revolved around the life of striker Nick Jarvis, who was playing for an amateur side Oakvale, who had just been drawn against Manchester United in the third round of the FA Cup. Oakvale were well beaten in this match, but Jarvis played well and eventually signed for Thamesford Football Club on a permanent basis.
Since its inception, the strip has mainly revolved around the life of striker Nick Jarvis, who began his career as an apprentice footballer with First Division side Thamesford, before joining Warbury Warriors in 1994 as player/manager. The club were then a non-league side and Nick eventually led them to the Premier League. Several promotions and relegations have followed since then. Although Warbury won the European Champions League in 2009 they have never actually won the Premier League.
Although Warbury Warriors is a fictitious team (as was Thamesford) the comic strip features them playing against real teams and players from England's Premier League and Football League every week.
Nick's own playing career was ended in 2003 by a shark attack off Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. In May 2013, with Warbury in Division 2, Nick briefly made a playing comeback at the age of 45 to help them reach promotion to the Championship.
Striker is a 2010 Bollywood action- drama film written, directed and produced by Chandan Arora. It stars Siddharth, Vidya Malvade, Padmapriya, Nicolette Bird, Anupam Kher, Seema Biswas and Aditya Pancholi. The film had a theatrical release in cinemas throughout India on 5 February 2010. It also premiered on YouTube the same day, thus becoming the first ever Indian film to premiere on YouTube internationally on the same day as its domestic theatrical release.
Striker (also known as Combat Force) is a 1987 Italian war- action film directed by Enzo G. Castellari. The film reprises the style of the " Rambo" movies.
The miniatures game Striker is a science fiction tactical wargame that was published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1981 as a boxed expansion to the Traveller role-playing game. It was notable for attempting to cover a broad range of technological levels and having an intricate "engineering" style of vehicle design by the player using formulas and tables. The combat rules were an elaboration on the rules introduced in the Azhanti High Lightning game, using a 2D6 mechanic very different from the original "Traveller" rules. A later game, Striker II, was based on the systems in GDW's Command Decision WWII rules and tied to the role-playing game Traveller: The New Era.
Usage examples of "striker".
Although she understood the striker, rather than fiddling with the device, Anna hummed the tune she and Brill had used to light the candles again.
Whatever rapport Bloor and I had developed with the Striker people was wearing very thin after three days of increasingly strange behavior and the antisocial attitude we apparently manifested at the big Striker cocktail party at the Punta Morena beach bar was clearly unacceptable.
A striker got careless and was scalded by the steam, and had to be set ashore at Napoleon.
In the lull that followed the destruction, Justen bent down and touched Clerve, sensing the ragged breathing, and offered a small touch of order to the striker.
Nolan was here in Argenta, instead of up at the mines, here with a mob of strikers, their leader and spokesman, chief of the crew, possibly, that had nearly done to death the son of one of the principal directors of Silver Shield.
As he watched them go, Cathartes found himself wondering whether in the coming crisis they could be depended on, whether they were capable of more than the routine punishment of strikers and trade unionists.
The chimes continued, a shimmering sound that evoked a shimmering bell given voice by a muffled striker.
There were truck-weighers, coal tram-weighers, engineers, stokers, tenders, strikers, lampmen, cogmen, banksmiths, rubbish-tippers, greasers, screeners, trimmers, labourers, small-coal pickers, doorboys, hitchers, hauliers, firemen .
Striker parked the jeep across the street from a three-story, red-brick building in a neighborhood that had been on the downslide for a decade.
These days he played defence, guarding the hoops against opposition strikers.
In one novel Striker has a friendly match with a lame Cuban judoka, and loses.
The long-dreaded conflict between the forces of the strikers and the nonunion men who have taken their places has come at last.
After the dispute had dragged The Disillusionment of Davie Fulton 165 on for two months, the strikers raided the camps of nonunion loggers hired by the companies.
The Anarchists developed a strenuous propaganda among the unemployed and the strikers.
With the frame no longer in the way, she pulled the door to the left, and on the right side, the deadbolts slid out of the striker plates.