1 a long thin mark or line that is a different colour from the surface it is on:
There was a streak of blood on his face. * streaks of grey in her hair * dirty streaks on the window * streaks of sunlight
2 a part of a person's character, especially an unpleasant part:
a ruthless / vicious / mean streak * a streak of cruelty
3 a series of successes or failures, especially in a sport or in gambling:
a streak of good luck * to hit (= have) a winning streak * to be on a losing streak * a lucky / unlucky streak
Part of speech: verb
1 [VN] ~ sth (with sth) to mark or cover sth with streaks:
Tears streaked her face. * His face was streaked with mud. * She's had her hair streaked (= had special chemicals put on her hair so that it has attractive coloured lines in it). * The sunset streaked the sky with brilliant colours.
2 [V+adv./prep.] to move very fast in a particular direction:
A car pulled out and streaked off down the road. * She streaked home in under 54 seconds.
3 [V] [usually +adv./prep.] (informal) to run through a public place with no clothes on as a way of getting attention:
Erica became famous for streaking across a cricket pitch.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for streak is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is streak a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, streak is tagged as noun.
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