strike

1. A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
2. The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
3. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest. · After an eleven-week strike, it was management that finally blinked.
4. A blow or application of physical force against something.
5. An attack, not necessarily physical. · air strike; first strike
6. In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
7. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
8. The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at. · The batsmen have crossed, and Dhoni now has the strike.

Plural strikes