Usually means: Attack repeatedly with gunfire horizontally.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. strafe: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. strafe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. strafe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. strafe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. strafe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Strafe, strafe: Wordnik
  7. strafe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. strafe: Wiktionary
  9. strafe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. strafe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. strafe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. strafe: Dictionary.com
  13. strafe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Strafe (band), Strafe (disambiguation), Strafe (video game), Strafe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. strafe: Rhymezone
  16. Strafe (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. strafe: Free Dictionary
  18. strafe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. strafe: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strafe: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strafe: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strafe: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See strafed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, military, aviation) To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft.
verb:  (transitive, military, by extension) To rake (a target) with rapid or automatic gunfire.
verb:  (intransitive, video games) To sidestep; to move sideways without turning (a core mechanic of most first-person shooters).
noun:  An attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft.
noun:  (video games) A sideways movement without turning.

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