Usually means: Refusal to eat for protest.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word hunger strike:

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  1. hunger strike: Merriam-Webster
  2. hunger strike: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hunger strike: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hunger strike: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hunger strike: Vocabulary.com
  6. hunger-strike: Wordnik
  7. hunger strike: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hunger strike: Wiktionary
  9. hunger strike: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hunger strike: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hunger-strike, hunger strike: Dictionary.com
  12. Hunger Strike (song), Hunger strike, The Hunger Strike (Jeeves and Wooster), The Hunger Strike: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. hunger strike: Rhymezone
  14. hunger strike: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. hunger strike: FreeDictionary.org
  16. hunger strike: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. hunger strike: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. hunger strike: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hunger strike: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hunger-strike: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hunger_striker as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hunger strike)

▸ noun:  A fast undertaken as a means of protest, often by a prisoner.

Similar:
strike, sex strike, hate strike, self-immolation, unstrike, token strike, demonstration, phone-in, Hunger Games, hatchetation, more...

Types:
sit-in, lock-in, die-in, fast, more...

Phrases:
1981 Irish hunger strike, take part in a hunger strike, more...

Adjectives:
work-to-rule, dog, on strike, sit-in, sit-down, battel, put up, walk-in, battle, whistle-stop, lay

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Similar:
strike, sex strike, hate strike, self-immolation, unstrike, token strike, demonstration, phone-in, Hunger Games, hatchetation, more...

Types:
sit-in, lock-in, die-in, fast, more...

Phrases:
1981 Irish hunger strike, take part in a hunger strike, more...

Adjectives:
work-to-rule, dog, on strike, sit-in, sit-down, battel, put up, walk-in, battle, whistle-stop, lay



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