strafe
IPA: strˈeɪf
noun
- An attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft.
- (video games) A sideways movement without turning.
verb
- (transitive, military, aviation) To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft.
- (transitive, military, by extension) To rake (a target) with rapid or automatic gunfire.
- (intransitive, video games) To sidestep; to move sideways without turning (a core mechanic of most first-person shooters).
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Examples of "strafe" in Sentences
- Pull the joystick left and right to strafe.
- The enemy strafed the battalion, wherein Sep.
- No toy for this version of Strafe has been made.
- The planes took turns to dive, strafe and bomb the ship.
- The enemy called in aircraft to bomb and strafe the area.
- His ildcats engage the Rufes and prepare to strafe the destroyers.
- The power proves to be good but fast consecutive strafe is doubtful.
- Terrorists, for example, will now side strafe and lie prone in foliage.
- The aircraft are II Luftwaffe fighters that strafe the boat with gunfire.
- One night was marked by a very intense "strafe" for a short time with rifle grenades and trench mortars.
- Some days we would "strafe" him with trench mortars; on others we would give him a touch of our artillery.
- Almost every afternoon, about 4-30 p.m., the usual trench mortar "strafe" would commence, and would last for an hour or so.
- I _won't_, it's sheer waste -- still, I suppose one ought to be prepared -- oh, yes, give them one -- give them the word 'strafe'; nobody's got that.
- When a concentration begins on a battery, either the gunners must go to their dugouts or run beyond the range of the shells until the "strafe" is over.
- On this occasion the usual stoppages and checks were multiplied by a brisk artillery 'strafe' upon the front, accompanied by all manner of coloured lights and rockets.
- When this playful little "strafe" was removed by an order from Hanover the accumulated parcels nearly caused the death of the Germans working in the distributing room.
- One was shot in the leg and another bayoneted through the hip, and all were sent back to camp, where they were awarded six weeks in the punishment camp, known as the strafe barracks.
- I glanced up at the pollard willow over head, against which I had been leaning to steady my field glasses as I watched our artillery "strafe" the Germans who were attacking the Ghurkas.
- It's true that he does jolly good work when the Huns 'strafe' his wire and he has to go out and mend it, but he doesn't go forward in an attack; he sits in his dug-out and telephones like blazes for reinforcements while the Germans pepper his roof for him with 'whizz-bangs.'