Definition of "strike out" [strike out]

• To lash out; to strike or hit at someone or something, particularly something in arm's length of the striker and at or near the level of the striker's head. (verb)
• To draw a line through some text such as a printed or written sentence, with the purpose of deleting that text from the rest of the document. The text so deleted may be completely obscured, or it may be deliberately left legible with the line through it so that readers can see that it was deliberately deleted. (verb)
• Of a batter, to be retired after three strikes (missed swings, as opposed to any other way of becoming "out"); of a pitcher, to cause this to happen to the batter. (verb)

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• "No longer does a fan grouse about a strikeout-prone slugger by saying, ‘How can that bum strike out like that?’"
• "Shrugging that off, to say he was tough on the Red Sox batters was an understatement; after giving up the hit, Sabathia proceeded to strike out the next three batters."
• "Spellbindingly spectacular, he refused to show a set pattern as he became the first starting pitcher since the very first World Series game to strike out ten batters without issuing a single walk."