Strides vs Strikes - What's the difference?
strides | strikes |
(plurale tantum, UK, Australia) Trousers.
* 2004 , Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga , Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press,
* 2006 , Smiley Brymer, The Universal Naked Linesman , AuthorHouse,
* 2007 , Antony Agar, Queensland Ringer ,
* 1994 , , 2008,
(stride)
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As nouns the difference between strides and strikes
is that strides is while strikes is .As verbs the difference between strides and strikes
is that strides is (stride) while strikes is (strike).strides
English
Noun
(head)page 97,
- So he gave him one boot. I said, ‘One boot?s no bloody good! Give him two boot[s]!’ So he chucks over another boot, and a pair of strides .
page 173,
- He went upstairs and changed into a fresh pair of strides , nipped into the bathroom and gave his hands and face a quick rinse and threw on a clean pullover.
page 211,
- His mother used to have to buy two pair of strides for him, cut the legs off one and sew them onto the other.
unnumbered page,
- I thought of Des and May?s daughters, then of Gleaves, and resolved to borrow a pair of strides from Cliff, to keep the tie-wearing penile-challenged toss-bag oaf ma case.