Usually means: Initial attack to gain advantage.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word first strike:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. first-strike, first strike: Merriam-Webster
  2. first strike: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. first strike: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. first-strike, first-strike: Collins English Dictionary
  5. first strike: Vocabulary.com
  6. first-strike: Wordnik
  7. first strike: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. first strike: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. first strike: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. first-strike, first strike: Dictionary.com
  11. First Strike (DC Comics), First Strike (IDW Publishing), First Strike (Stargate Atlantis), First Strike (film), First-strike, First strike (coinage), First strike (disambiguation), First strike: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. first strike: Rhymezone
  13. first strike: FreeDictionary.org
  14. first strike: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. first-strike, first strike: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. first strike: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  17. first strike: Wiktionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Army Technology Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. First Strike (TM): Coin Collecting

(Note: See first-strike as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (first strike)

noun:  An attack (typically nuclear) launched without warning in the absence of a prior attack by one's opponent, with the intention of destroying one's opponent's ability to retaliate.

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