streaking

Pluralstreakings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of streak.

   Two fighter jets came streaking low over the stadium during the anthem.

   Gray was already streaking his dark hair by the time he turned forty.

   Note

   After come or go it describes the manner of motion: a jet came streaking past, a dog went streaking across the yard. Followed by an object it is the marking verb instead (rain streaking the glass), and without one it can mean developing streaks, as hair does when it starts streaking with gray.

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of dashing through a public place without any clothes on.

   Police treated the streaking as a prank and let the student go with a warning.

   Stadium officials tightened security after a string of streakings during televised games.

   Note

   A campus craze made the word famous: by February 1974, students at scores of American colleges, and even some high schools, were running naked alone, then in pairs and then in groups. Its later home is the sports ground, where incidents are counted one by one and clubs add security in the wake of streakings.

3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The condition of being marked with streaks, or a single streak.

   The dark streaking in the wood grain gave the old table a striking look.

   Fine streakings of red ran through the pale stone of the cliff.

   Similarveining, striation, striping

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