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- noun Plural form of
strafe .
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Examples
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Paul Shaffer braces himself against the struts and strafes the roof of Fort Knox with his tommy gun.
Paul Shaffer's Gold A.G. Pasquella 2011
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The speaker employs a military metaphor of a plane that "dives/And strafes."
Archive 2010-01-01 Rus Bowden 2010
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Finch by Jeff VanderMeer – This book reclaims with brute force the sub-genre urban fantasy and strafes an entire genre in the process.
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Finch reclaims with brute force the sub-genre urban fantasy and strafes an entire genre in the process.
Tuesday Linkage: Booklifenow on Doctorow and Vertical/Horizontal Learning, Reviews, and More 2009
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Was I any better than the Luftwaffe pilot who strafes the helpless British aviator floating to the ground by parachute after being shot down?
An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008
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Israel strafes and bombs the American Ship USS LIBERTY [9].
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He strafes, misses, and the Joker pulls out a superlong gun from his pants that somehow shoots down the batplane.
Erik Lundegaard: Batman (1989): Why Michael Keaton is the Best Bruce Wayne 2008
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Question: When he strafes the Joker in the batplane, was he trying to kill him?
Erik Lundegaard: Batman (1989): Why Michael Keaton is the Best Bruce Wayne 2008
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Each pilot, jointly with the other pilots, strafes enemy soldiers in order to realise the collective end of providing air-cover for their advancing foot soldiers.
Social Institutions Miller, Seumas 2007
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Four more missiles had been found pointing right at us, an A-10 air craft strafes the rocket position, and a then F-16 jet take out a nearby house with a 500-pound bomb.
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