streaky
IPA: strˈiki
adjective
- Having streaks.
- (cricket) Used to describe a shot where the ball deflects off the edge of the bat, but is not caught by the slips or wicket-keeper and instead results in runs for the batsman.
- (chiefly of a person, usually Canada, US) Having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent.
- (archaic, slang) Having periods of irritation or bad temper.
- (soccer) Not well-executed, due to luck more than skill.
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Examples of "streaky" in Sentences
- The make up was streaky and bold.
- The bacon used is streaky, smoky bacon.
- The plumage is streaky red brown and spiky.
- Its certainly more common that streaky bacon.
- Los Angeles had a very streaky season in 2006.
- Pretty, petite with streaky brownish blonde hair.
- Can't scan anything on it without streaky lines appearing.
- It never did really dry properly and it was streaky and patchy.
- Obviously there should be no real objection to calling it streaky bacon.
- His shooting has been described as "streaky," but with a nice 3-point touch.
- Powerboy's empathy calmed the fear of humans in Streaky helping domesticate it.
- In basketball parlance, Brooks is known as "streaky"—and that reputation extends beyond his shooting touch.
- The Slovak, known as a streaky player, began hitting accurate groundstrokes as Roddick's game turned erratic.
- Indeed all the region about the Pleiades, for an area of ten square degrees, is involved in streaky nebulosity.
- Probabilities can get "streaky," but there's a very human element that separates situations like this one from pure probabilities.
- Unlike other products that leave your skin streaky, orange, or just uneven, CellaDerm is easy to apply and produces a smooth, even tan that can make golden brown beach-goers jealous.
- It's just as well the back four is stepping it up - and yet to concede a goal against any of the other top-five sides - because the attack remains out of sorts, with Wayne Rooney still searching for his best form and Dimitar Berbatov's goal-scoring can only be described as streaky at best.
- Not only that, but you also get a rasher of thick, ham-like bacon (as opposed to our kind of thin bacon, which the Irish call streaky bacon); some amazing sausages, which practically melt in your mouth; fried tomatoes and mushrooms, toast, and blood pudding, which is basically coagulated blood made into a sausage patty.
- If I had to pick one of them, I would give Lindsey a slight edge only because she tends to be a more consistent player whereas Venus can be a little bit streaky, which is both good and bad, because when she gets on a good roll, she can put together points really well, although when she gets on a little bit of a bad roll she can spray the ball and be a little bit sporadic.