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streak
noun
a thin person AUSTRALIA, 1941
Usually qualified (LONG STREAK OF MISERY; LONG STREAK OF PISS); in its unqualified form it is more often used in Australia and New Zealand but not exclusively so.- Percy, a short streak of profanity, dark like a Liverpool Spaniard[.] — Troy Kennedy Martin, Z Cars, p. 5, 1962
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 120, 1998
▶ put a streak in it
to hurry UK- Through the pandemonium cut a megaphone voice, adjuring the laggards in some class to “put a streak into it! Numbers 3, 7 and 16, we’re waiting for you.” — Nicholas Blake, The Private Wound, 1968
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