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a fragile empire built one day at a time, toppled by a single forgotten night
means A streak is an unbroken run of the same thing—a line, a stretch of luck, or a sequence of consecutive days or wins—or, as a verb, to move very fast or to run naked through a public place.
from From Old English 'strica,' a stroke or line, kin to 'strike' and to the German 'Strich.' The original sense was a mark drawn or smeared across a surface—a streak of paint, a streak of light—which stretched naturally into the idea of an unbroken run. The 'run naked' meaning is a 1970s American flourish, leaning on the older verb sense of moving with sudden speed, as if one were a streak across the eye.
- snapchat power
- Lost streaks have sparked genuine teen friendship breakups
- lightning fact
- Most cloud-to-ground bolts travel upward, not down
- sports curse
- Winning streaks end the moment headlines call them unbeatable
- word origin
- From Old English for a line or mark
- streaking history
- Peaked in 1974 with thousands of naked sprinters
joe dimaggio hitting streak — 56 consecutive games with a hit in 1941, baseball's most famous record
byron nelson golf streak — 11 consecutive pga tour wins in 1945, still unmatched in professional golf
ucla basketball winning streak — 88 consecutive victories from 1971-1974 under coach john wooden