Usually means: Initiate conversation or start playing.
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  1. strike up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. strike up: Merriam-Webster
  3. strike up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. strike up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. strike up: Vocabulary.com
  6. strike up (sth): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. strike up: Wiktionary
  8. strike up: Dictionary.com
  9. strike up: Rhymezone
  10. strike up: FreeDictionary.org
  11. strike up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. strike up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strike up: Legal dictionary

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  1. strike up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strike up: Medical dictionary

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  1. strike up: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (strike up)

verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To start something with somebody else, such as a conversation or relationship.
verb:  (intransitive, ergative, idiomatic) To start something, usually playing live music.
verb:  To raise (as sheet metal), in making dishes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die.

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