Usually means: Series of consecutive successes or failures.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word streak:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. streak: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. streak: Merriam-Webster
  3. streak, streak: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. streak: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. streak: Collins English Dictionary
  6. streak: Vocabulary.com
  7. Streak, streak: Wordnik
  8. streak: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. streak: Wiktionary
  10. streak: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. streak: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. streak: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. streak: Dictionary.com
  14. streak (n.), streak (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. streak: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Streak (company), Streak (disambiguation), Streak (film), Streak (mineralogy), Streak (moth), Streak, The Streak (song), The Streak (wrestling), The Streak: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Streak: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. streak: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. streak: Rhymezone
  20. streak: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. streak: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. streak: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. streak: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. streak: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. streak: FreeDictionary.org

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. streak: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. streak: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. streak: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. streak: Medical dictionary
  5. Streak: Gray's Anatomy (1918)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. streak: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Streak: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. streak, streak: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. streak: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See streaked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
noun:  A continuous series of like events.
noun:  A consistent facet of somebody's personality.
noun:  The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain.
noun:  A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
noun:  A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
noun:  (shipbuilding) A strake.
noun:  A rung or round of a ladder.
noun:  The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area.
verb:  (intransitive) To have or obtain streaks.
verb:  (intransitive) To run quickly.
verb:  (intransitive) To run naked in public.
verb:  (intransitive) To move very swiftly.
verb:  (transitive) To create streaks upon.
verb:  (obsolete, UK, Scotland) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

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