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6 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane
verb attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane
originBorrowed from German strafe (“punish”) (a conjugated form of strafen), from phrases like Gott strafe England (“God punish England”) which the British saw during the First World War.
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