Other forms: strikers
A striker is a player whose job is to score. The main striker, a natural striker, sign a striker.
In football the striker plays furthest forward and is judged almost entirely on goals, which makes it the most exposed position on the pitch. The word also means a worker on strike, which is the older sense and now the commoner one in news. A striker is also the part of a firing mechanism that hits the primer. Note strike, which does a great deal of unrelated work.
1nounstrikerA football player whose job is to score.
“The striker scored twice in the second half.”
2nounworkerA worker on strike.
“The strikers stood outside the factory gates, demanding better pay.”
striker is a player or a protester.
Proto-Indo-European
*streyg- — to stroke, rub, press
Proto-Germanic
*strīkaną
Proto-West Germanic
*strīkan
Old English
strīcan
Middle English
stryken
English
strike
English, today
striker
From strike + -er. strike comes from Middle English stryken, from Old English strīcan, from Proto-West Germanic strīkan, from Proto-Germanic strīkaną, from Proto-Indo-European streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”). Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen, Danish stryge, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA