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How to pronounce “strike up”
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Pronunciation guide for strike up
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of strike up with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Sabermetrics 101: Baseball Analytics
their placement of the pitches over the strike zone.
- Definition summary
- (transitive, idiomatic) To start something with somebody else, such as a conversation or relationship.
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How to pronounce strike up
Sabermetrics 101: Baseball Analytics

their placement of the pitches over the strike zone.
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive, idiomatic) To start something with somebody else, such as a conversation or relationship.
- (intransitive, ergative, idiomatic) To start something, usually playing live music.
- To raise (as sheet metal), in making dishes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die.
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