What does STRAFE mean?
Definitions for STRAFE
streɪf, strɑfstrafe
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Princeton's WordNet
strafeverb
an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane
"the next morning they carried out a strafe of enemy airfields"
strafeverb
attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane
"civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender"
Wiktionary
strafenoun
An attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft.
strafenoun
A sideways movement without turning.
strafeverb
To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft.
strafeverb
to sidestep; to move sideways without turning. A core mechanic of most first-person shooters.
Etymology: strafe, a conjugated form of strafen the British saw in German expressions like "Gott strafe England" ("God punish England") during the First World War.
Wikipedia
strafe
Strafing is the military practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft using aircraft-mounted automatic weapons. Less commonly, the term is used by extension to describe high-speed firing runs by any land or naval craft such as fast boats, using smaller-caliber weapons and targeting stationary or slowly-moving targets.
ChatGPT
strafe
Strafe refers to the act of continuously attacking a target by guns or bombs from low-flying aircraft. It also broadly refers to making repeated, damaging attacks on a target. It's commonly used in military context but can be also used metaphorically.
Wikidata
Strafe
Strafe the name of two fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. They are both members of the Technobots, an Autobot subgroup, who turn into aircraft.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of STRAFE in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of STRAFE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of STRAFE in a Sentence
It’s about them crashing and hitting a building — a place where people live, it’s about the terror that they cause in people when they strafe neighborhoods. That’s something I hear about all the time when Blue Angels fly overhead.
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