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# streaky

«streaky» in Mova's school dictionary: **having streaks: long thin lines or marks of a different…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (streaky, streakier, streakiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Streaky means having streaks: long thin lines or marks of a different colour, often uneven: streaky windows, streaky hair dye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#m1)

2) (UK, Ireland, Australia) Streaky bacon is bacon with stripes of fat and meat, cut from the belly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#m2)

3) (informal, sport) Streaky means not steady, sometimes very good and sometimes bad; in cricket, a streaky shot is a lucky edge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it describes cleaning, painting, hair and food. In art lessons streaky paint shows uneven strokes. In sport commentary, a "streaky" player has winning and losing streaks. Phrases: "streaky bacon", "streaky windows", "a streaky shot".

### examples

- I cleaned the window, but it's still streaky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#x1)
- The paint dried streaky because I used too little. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#x2)
- Dad made sandwiches with streaky bacon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#x3)
- Her fake tan went a bit streaky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#x4)
- The sky was streaky with pink clouds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#x5)
- His batting is streaky: one week great, the next week awful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#x6)
- That was a streaky four off the edge of the bat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#x7)

### note

Comparative: streakier, streakiest. "Streaky bacon" is a UK/Irish/Australian name; Americans just say "bacon". From "streak", a line or a run of wins or losses.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «streaky» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.