prestrike
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[edit]Etymology
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[edit]prestrike (not comparable)
- Before a strike (work stoppage as protest).
- Before the striking motion of a snake.
- 1992, Carl Gans, Philip Steven Ulinski, Biology of the Reptilia, page 435:
- The nine phases may be clustered into three subgroups: prestrike, strike, and poststrike behavior.