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streak

 
 
/striːk/ verb

Definition

streak across/down/through, etc to move quickly: The plane streaked across the sky.
be streaked with sth to have thin lines of a different colour: His dark hair was lightly streaked with grey.
(Definition of streak verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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