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  • strike
    [W Car.; OED, to hit with a missile, now somewhat rare] v. to harpoon (a fish): 1731 Turtle are most commonly taken at
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  • stride
    [cf. MAKE STRIVE; by hypercorrection] n. striving: His stride to have fulfillment out of life (COB). (Nassau)
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  • strick on
    [from strict severe, by simplification of final consonant cluster] phr. strict with: parents strick on their children (COB). (Black)
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  • strick
    [OED, to strike obs.; dial. idem in Scots (CSD), US (ADD)] v. to strike: When da clock strick twell I had
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  • stretchy²
    [from starchy (by metathesis and vowel raising), perhaps influenced by stretch to extend in capacity] adj. cheap, starchy, as of
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  • stretchy¹
    [OED, liable to stretch unduly] adj. sagging (of skin): That old woman skin dead stretchy (Nassau). (Gen.)
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  • street talk
    [from the kind of language used when talking on a street corner; cf. BDNE I street-smarts] n. slang, especially that used by
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  • street-girl tomato
    [name said to derive from its being "half wild and very sweet"] n. a variety of tomato that grows wild and has
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  • straw work
    [OED work done in plaited straw; cf. STRAW¹] n. goods made of woven strips of palm fronds: 1975 Bahamian women. . .
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  • strawny
    [cf. Scots strawn a string CSD, possibly influencing scrawny thin W3] adj. thin: Get one strawny needle like that, 'bout eight inches
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