strafe

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He saw the light go up in his wife's bed room, unscreened for a full minute, and thought: 'Aha! If I did my duty as a special, I should "strafe" her for that.'

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  1. transitive verb To attack (ground troops, for example) with a machine gun or cannon from a low-flying aircraft.
  2. noun An attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft.

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  • Stukas dive bomb, Sturmoviks strafe, and FlaKpanzer Wirbelwinds desperately try to fend off the death from above. —  Boardgame News
  • You control your ninja via the nunchuck, holding down B to strafe and using the C button to jump. —  Latest from PALGN
  • While strafe jumping you can propel yourself off walls and such with well placed rockets at certain angles when facing the wall. —  Latest from PALGN
  • Well I've got some news for all those naysayers, RE5 adds the ability to strafe, and as expected, it is a fantastic new feature. —  1UP RSS feed
  • The specter of helicopters crossing that border to strafe desperate refugees awakened deep anger, and Cockburn's honest expression of that anger came very close to a call to arms. —  The Vail Trail - All Sections
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  1. From German (Gott) strafe (England), (God) punish (England), a common World War I slogan, from strafen, to punish, from Middle High German strāfen, to contest, admonish.
 

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