Definition of Strikeover

1. Noun. A printers' term for strikeover or strikeout text, i.e., fonts where each letter appears to be "crossed out". ¹

2. Noun. The resultant text using strikeovers. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Strikeover

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Strikeover

strike zone
strike zones
strikebound
strikebreaker
strikebreakers
strikebreaking
strikebreakings
striked
strikee
strikees
strikeforce
strikeless
strikelike
strikeout
strikeouts
strikeover (current term)
strikeovers
striker
strikers
strikes
strikes gold
strikes out
strikes through
strikest
strikesthrough
striketh
strikethrough
strikethroughs
striking
striking distance

Literary usage of Strikeover

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. W. B. Yeats: The Writing of Sophocles' King Oedipus by William Butler Yeats, David R. Clark, James B. McGuire (1989)
"14 The typed strikeover "envy/envie" is not transcribed. Pagel?: Revisions in 11. ... 9 The typed strikeover ":/d" in "god" is not transcribed. ..."

2. The Expert Typist by Clarence Charles Smith (1922)
"Notice also that a strikeover counts but one off, the same as an erasure. Therefore, if a character is struck lightly so that a ..."

3. The Expert Typist by Clarence Charles Smith (1922)
"Notice also that a strikeover counts but one off, the same as an erasure. Therefore, if a character is struck lightly so that a ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"This is considerable, averaging about a second in each operator; a back-spaced strikeover thus takes as much time as five or six correct strokes. ..."

5. Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market: A Treatise on Economic by Murray Newton Rothbard (2004)
"... presumably a strikeover. Rothbard clearly intended to write "Randian" as shorthand for the notion of "rational-ethical" philosophy. ..."

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