Associations to the word «Strikeout»

Wiktionary

STRIKEOUT, noun. An instance or the act of yielding nothing
STRIKEOUT, noun. (baseball) An instance or the act of striking out
STRIKEOUT, noun. (computing) (wordprocessing) Cancellation of a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.

Dictionary definition

STRIKEOUT, noun. An out resulting from the batter getting three strikes.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne