Strike Up

Definition: Strike Up

Strike Up

Verb

1. Start playing; "The musicians struck up a tune".

2. Begin; "strike up a conversation"; "strike up a friendship".

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

Synonym: Strike Up

Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance (Kiss Me; performing artist: Sixpence None The Richer)

Strike Up the Band (1940)

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

Books

• Strike Up the Band (reference)

• Strike Up the Band : Vocal Score (reference)

• Strike Up the Band/Audio Cassette/5016-4 (reference)

• Strike Up the Band: Vocal Selections (reference)

• Strike Up the Orchestra: A Child's Guide to Classical Music ((The Life, Times & Music Book/Cd Ser.)) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Strike Up the Band (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Strike Up the Band / Fats Waller Album (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Strike up the drum

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Health

The disorder may strike up to 6 months after the fever or infection has cleared. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "strike up": strike up a conversation with ♦ strike up a song ♦ strike up an acquaintance with ♦ strike up the band! ♦ To strike up. Additional references.

Albanian

fillon të luajë, filloj (begin, come, commence, develop, embark, enter, fall into, fall on, fall to, get, get down, initiate, lead off, open, originate, rise, set about, set in, set to, set up, start). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إفتتح (inaugurate, initiate, start), ‏إستهل (begin, commence, initialize, institute, launch, lead off, open, preface, set, start), ‏بدأ الغناء. (various references)

Bulgarian 

засвирвам (pipe up, tune up), запявам (intonate, intone, pipe up, start singing, tune up). (various references)

Czech

zapříst, zahrát (lead, represent, strike), navázat (accost, begin, establish, make, raise). (various references)

Dutch

contact zoeken (chum up, pick up, strike up an acquaintance), aanpappen (chum up, pick up, strike up an acquaintance). (various references)

Esperanto

serĉi kontakton (chum up, pick up, strike up an acquaintance). (various references)

Finnish

solmia tuttavuus (strike up an acquaintance), virittää laulu (strike up a song), pistää lauluksi (strike up a song), kaiuttaa (strike up a song). (various references)

French

se mettre � chanter, inaugurer (start), commencer (get started, start, start up). (various references)

German

knüpfen (attach, form, knot, mesh, tie), aufspielen (play), anstimmen (begin singing, chant, give the key-note, intone, pitch, set up, start playing, to intone). (various references)

Greek 

ανακρούω (change one's mind). (various references)

Hungarian

rázendít (to pipe up, to strike up, to tune up, tune up), megköt (conclude, cord, knit up, skid, tie, to belay, to clench, to clinch, to conclude, to consolidate, to get hard, to harden, to knit up, to lace, to lash, to strike up, to tie, transact, trig), belekezd (commence, fall to, lead off, to engage in, to enter into, to incept, to inchoate, to strike up). (various references)

Italian

fare amicizia (socialise, socialize), attaccare (adherence, affix, annex, append, assail, assault, attach, attack, become attached, begin, bind, catch on, cling, connect, engage, fasten, fix, foist, glue, hang, hitch, infect, lead off, link, pass on, pin, pitch into, plug in, put up, stick, stick in, strike, tie). (various references)

Manx

dy chloie seose. (various references)

Pig Latin

ikestray upay.(various references)

Portuguese

iniciar (begin, commence, handsel, induct, initiate, introduce, launch, lead off, open, originate, set off, set to, start), entorar, começar (begin, come on, commence, get around, go, kick off, lead off, open, originate, set in, set off, set to, start, tee off). (various references)

Russian 

начинать (began, begin, begun, commence, enter upon, inaugurate, incept, kick off, launch, lead off, preface, prelude, set to, start, start off, starts), парировать удар (strike down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zasvirati (begin to play), odbiti (cast aside, counter, decline, deduct, deny, disallow, dock, drive back, fend off, fight off, keep off, knock off, overrule, parry, rebuff, reflect, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, stave off, throw back, turn away, turn back, turn down, ward off, wean), brzo sklopiti prijateljstvo. (various references)

Spanish

iniciar a (induct, institute), iniciar (boot, come on, enter into, initialize, initiate, launch, lead off, light, log in, log on, open, pioneer, start, take to, take up), entablar (begin, board, board in, board up, bring, cover with boards, draw, enter into, establish, file, floor, initiate, institute, plank, prosecute, set up, splint, start). (various references)

Swedish

inleda (commence, inaugurate, initiate, institute, introduce, lead off, open, usher in). (various references)

Turkish

söylemeye başlamak, kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, cog, conspire, constitute, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, time, weave, wind up), başlamak (begin, come on, commence, cut along, enter into, enter on, enter upon, fall into, fall to, get, get a move on, get going, get to, go, go off, inaugurate, introduce, kick off, knuckle down to, launch, launch out, launch out into, lay down, open, set about, set in, set out, set to, start, start in, start off, strike in, turn to), çalmaya başlamak (break into a chord). (various references)

Ukrainian

схоплюватися (spring, start up), починати (begin, break, commence, embark, enter into, enter on, enter upon, initiate, institute, launch, lead off, open, prelude, quicken, set off, start, tee off, tee up, undertake). (various references)

Misspellings

"Strike Up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: strick up. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: erupts, esprit, kiters, pikers, priest, purest, purist, ripest, spiker, sprite, strike, stripe, suiter, trikes, tripes, tupiks, tusker, uprise, upstir.

-3 letters: erupt, etuis, keirs, kepis, kiers, kiter, kites, peris, perks, piers, piker, pikes, piste, prest, pries, prise, pukes, puris, purse, ripes, rites, setup, sieur, siker, sirup, situp, skier, skirt, skite, speir, spier, spike.

+1 letter: turnpikes.

+2 letters: puckeriest, superthick.

+3 letters: superstrike.

+4 letters: bankruptcies, computerniks, superstrikes.