Strike Back

Definition: Strike Back

Strike Back

Verb

1. Make a counterattack; "THe Empire strikes back"; "The Giants struck back and won the opener".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Strike Back

Crosswords: Strike Back

It's time for you to strike back (Whatchulookinat; performing artist: Whitney Houston)

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

VH1: Men Strike Back (2000)

The Simpsons Strike Back Bart Wars (1999)

Killer Tomatoes Strike Back! (1990)

Vampires Strike Back (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Lord Foulgrin's Letters: How to Strike Back at the Tyrant by Deceiving and Destroying His Human Vermin (reference)

• Simpsons Comics Strike Back (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (reference)

• Killer Tomatoes Strike Back (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Supertones Strike Back (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Deer Avenger 4: The Rednecks Strike Back (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i jap përgjigjen. (various references)

Arabic 

‏إنتقم (get back, get even with, get one's own back, hit back, reprisal, requite, retaliate, revenge, take revenge, wreak, wreak vengeance), ‏رد لطمة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

отвръщам на удара с удар (hit back). (various references)

Chinese 

反�"� (beat back, counterattack). (various references)

Czech

oplatit úder, odrazit (beat, beat off, fend, fend off, fight off, force back, hold off, intercept, push off, rebut, repel, repulse, return, ricochet, shove off, throw back, ward off). (various references)

French

se venger, user de représailles, rendre les coups. (various references)

German

zurückschlagen (beat back, beat off, beatback, fight back, flare back, fold back, hit back, kick, knock away, knock back, leaf back, pull back, repel, repulse, retaliate, return, roll back, swing back, to repulse, to strike back, turn down). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"חזיר מ�"לומ�". (various references)

Hungarian

visszavág (cut back, hit back, Pollard, retort, riposte, to come back, to retort, to return to the charge), visszaüt (hit back, throw back, to counter, to kick back, to recoil, to revert, to throw back). (various references)

Italian

far rappresaglie (retaliate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

歯向う (to bite back, to defy, to oppose, to rise against, to strike back at, to turn on), 歯向かう (to bite back, to defy, to oppose, to rise against, to strike back at, to turn on), 刃向かう (to bite back, to defy, to oppose, to rise against, to strike back at, to turn on), 切り�"す (to counterattack, to slash or strike back). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きりかえす (to counterattack, to slash or strike back), はむかう (to bite back, to defy, to oppose, to rise against, to strike back at, to turn on). (various references)

Pig Latin

ikestray ackbay

Russian 

наносить ответный удар. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzvratiti udar. (various references)

Spanish

devolver un golpe, devolver el golpe. (various references)

Swedish

slå tillbaka (beat off, fight off, hit back, repel, repulse). (various references)

Turkish

karşılık vermek (answer, answer back, come back, counter, give back, hit back, reciprocate, repay, reply, respond, riposte, talk back), geri vurmak (return). (various references)

Ukrainian

дати здачі (hit back). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: backrest, barkiest, brackets, brakiest, tiebacks.

-3 letters: ascribe, backers, backset, baiters, barites, bickers, bracket, brisket, britska, cakiest, caribes, cristae, karstic, kickers, raciest, rackets, rebaits, restack, retacks, rickets, setback, stacker, stearic, sticker, tackers, tackier, terbias, tickers, tieback.

-4 letters: airest, backer, baiter, bakers, barest, barite, basket, baster, batiks, bestir, bicker, bikers, bisect, bister, bistre, biters, braces.