streak
A streak is a mark or characteristic. What makes you keep trying to wipe the streak of permanent marker off the white couch — your clean streak or your stubborn streak?
Like a mark or stain, a streak in a person is a characteristic or strain that runs through them — like a mean streak. The noun streak can also refer to an unbroken chain of events — you’ll want a lucky streak to keep going and a losing streak to come to a quick end. As a verb, to streak means to dash, sometimes without clothes. If you talk a blue streak, you’ve got a lot to say, very quickly.
a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
a distinctive characteristic
a sudden flash (as of lightning)
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type of:
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flasha sudden intense burst of radiant energy
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flash
an unbroken series of events
“had a
streak of bad luck”-
synonyms:
run-
types:
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losing streaka streak of losses
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winning streaka streak of wins
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type of:
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successiona group of people or things arranged or following in order
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losing streak
mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
move quickly in a straight line
“The plane
streaked across the sky”-
type of:
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movemove so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
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move
run naked in a public place
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type of:
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runmove fast by using one’s feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
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run