strike out

strike out
1) PHRASAL VERB If you strike out, you begin to do something different, often because you want to become more independent.

[V P] She wanted me to strike out on my own, buy a business.

[V P] ...a desire to make changes and to strike out in new directions.

2) PHRASAL VERB If you strike out at someone, you hit, attack, or speak angrily to them.

[V P at n] He seemed always ready to strike out at anyone and for any cause...

[V P] Frampton struck out blindly, hitting not Waddington, but an elderly man.

3) PHRASAL VERB If you strike out in a particular direction, you start travelling in that direction. [LITERARY]

[V P prep/adv] They left the car and struck out along the muddy track...

[V P prep/adv] He was planning to dump her and strike out for New York alone.

Syn:
4) PHR-V-ERG In baseball, if a pitcher strikes out a batter or if a batter strikes out, the batter fails to hit three balls thrown properly by the pitcher, and is out.

[V P n (not pron)] He struck out ten batters, and allowed only two runs...

[V P] Canseco, nursing a back injury, struck out.

5) PHRASAL VERB If someone strikes out, they fail. [AM, INFORMAL]

[V P] The lawyer admitted that he was the firm's second lawyer. The first one had struck out completely.

6) → See also strike 19)

English dictionary. 2008.

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