strikes
verbUK /straɪks/
US /straɪks/
Hits something hard.
The clock strikes twelve at midnight.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. Stops working on purpose to ask for better pay or conditions.
The workers strikes for higher wages.
3. In baseball, a pitch that the batter misses or does not swing at.
The pitcher threw three strikes in a row.
4. Finds something suddenly, like gold or oil.
The miners strikes gold deep underground.
5. Attacks suddenly.
The storm strikes the coast at night.