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# streaky

adjective (streaky, streakier, streakiest)

«streaky» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Streaky means having streaks: long thin lines or marks of a different colour, often uneven: streaky windows, streaky hair dye. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#m1)
2. (UK, Ireland, Australia) Streaky bacon is bacon with stripes of fat and meat, cut from the belly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#m2)
3. (informal, sport) Streaky means not steady, sometimes very good and sometimes bad; in cricket, a streaky shot is a lucky edge. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life it describes cleaning, painting, hair and food. In art lessons streaky paint shows uneven strokes. In sport commentary, a "streaky" player has winning and losing streaks. Phrases: "streaky bacon", "streaky windows", "a streaky shot".

### Examples

- I cleaned the window, but it's still streaky. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#x1)
- The paint dried streaky because I used too little. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#x2)
- Dad made sandwiches with streaky bacon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#x3)
- Her fake tan went a bit streaky. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#x4)
- The sky was streaky with pink clouds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#x5)
- His batting is streaky: one week great, the next week awful. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#x6)
- That was a streaky four off the edge of the bat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/#x7)

### Note

Comparative: streakier, streakiest. "Streaky bacon" is a UK/Irish/Australian name; Americans just say "bacon". From "streak", a line or a run of wins or losses.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «streaky» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/streaky/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«streaky» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/streaky.html) on Mova free.