Usually means: Respond to attack with force.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. strike back: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. strike back: Merriam-Webster
  3. strike back: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. strike back: Vocabulary.com
  5. strike back: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. strike back: Wiktionary
  7. strike back: Dictionary.com
  8. Strike Back (TV series), Strike Back (album), Strike Back (series), Strike Back: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. strike back: Rhymezone
  10. strike back: FreeDictionary.org
  11. strike back: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. strike back: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strike back: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (strike back)

verb:  (intransitive) To respond to an attack by attacking one's opponent or opponents.
verb:  (intransitive) To leave or set out (in a particular direction, often to where one has been).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To send (light, heat, a substance) in the direction of its source.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To push or force (someone or something) away.

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