Phrase Hound found 27 phrases and 28 compound words that contain streak. The most common are listed below. Open streak in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 27
- winning streakAn uninterrupted sequence of wins.
- losing streakAn uninterrupted sequence of losses.
- Win Streak
- blue streakA great deal of fast talking, cursing, lying, or similar.
- hot streakA run of exceptionally good luck or performance.
- streak-backed antshrikea passerine bird of the antbird family, Thamnophilus insignis.
- mean streakA defect in character characterized by persistent nastiness, viciousness, or malevolence.
- talk a blue streakTo talk for a long duration of time, at a rapid pace without giving others a chance to speak, or to the point of tedium.
- fall streakAlternative form of fallstreak: A (part of a) virga; a streak of falling ice crystals that sublimate before reaching the ground.
- primitive streakA formation that occurs during the initial phases of embryonic development in birds, reptiles and mammals.
- streak cameraAn instrument for measuring the variation in a pulse of light's intensity over time.
- streak plateThe surface, usually made from unglazed porcelain, across which a mineral is dragged to determine its streak.
- yellow streakcowardly behaviour
- Mallen streakA streak of unusually coloured hair, typically white, which grows amidst normally colored hair.
- streak of good luckA continuous and uninterrupted period of good fortune.
- lucky streakA series of wins in gambling.
- Snap StreakA feature on the social media app Snapchat that tracks how many consecutive days a user and their friend have exchanged photo or video messages ("Snaps") with each other.
- learning streakA series of mistakes, sometimes also with successes, that help to educate a person
- streak camerasplural of streak camera: An instrument for measuring the variation in a pulse of light's intensity over time.
- streak platesplural of streak plate: The surface, usually made from unglazed porcelain, across which a mineral is dragged to determine its streak.
- visual streakAn elongated retinal area, found in some animals, that offers superior visual acuity.
- compulsive streakAn extended time frame in which a person feels the need to do lots of compulsive tasks, with each task often being neither fun nor rewarding, just to get rid of obsessive thoughts
- talked a blue streaksimple past and past participle of talk a blue streak
- talking a blue streakpresent participle and gerund of talk a blue streak
- talks a blue streakthird-person singular simple present indicative of talk a blue streak: To talk for a long duration of time, at a rapid pace without giving others a chance to speak, or to the point of tedium.
Compound words 28
- hairstreakAny of many butterflies, of the subfamily Theclinae, that have hairlike projections on the back wings.
- bluestreakAny of various species of damselfly of the genus Lestoidea (not to be confused with superfamily Lestoidea), endemic to Australia.
- restreakTo repeat a streaking procedure
- redstreakA kind of apple with the skin streaked with red and yellow, a favourite English cider apple.
- scorestreakAn unbroken streak (continuous series) of scoring, acquired without one's player character being killed.
- streakenTo mark or become marked with streaks.
- streaklineA locus of points of all the fluid particles that have passed continuously through a particular spatial point in the past.
- bestreakTo mark or cover with streaks.
- dawnstreakA streak of colour in the clouds at sunrise.
- eyestreakA streak of contrasting color over the eye of a bird.