How to pronounce “first strike”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (military) An attack (typically nuclear) launched without warning in the absence of a prior attack by one's opponent, with the intention of destroying one's opponent's ability to retaliate.
• (criminal law) A first offense by a lawbreaker, as counted by a three-strikes law.
• (numismatics) One of the first few coins struck from a new set of dies.

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