strikeout
See also: strike out
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Deverbal from strike out.
Noun
[edit]strikeout (countable and uncountable, plural strikeouts)
- (countable) An instance or the act of yielding nothing.
- We've had one strikeout after the other on the Jones account.
- (countable, baseball) An instance or the act of striking out.
- The pitcher recorded seven strikeouts in the game.
- (computing, wordprocessing) Cancellation of a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.
Translations
[edit](Computing) Cancellation of text items by crossing out rather than deleting
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Verb
[edit]strikeout (third-person singular simple present strikeouts, present participle strikeouting, simple past and past participle strikeouted)
- (computing, textprocessing) To cancel a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.
Translations
[edit](Computing) To cancel text items by crossing them out rather than deleting
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