strike up
verb
struck up; struck up also stricken up; striking up; strikes up
: to begin to sing or play or to be sung or played
1
: to cause to begin singing or playing
strike up the band
2
: to cause to begin
strike up a conversation
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In Coldwater, Walking Dead star Lincoln returns to British screens as a repressed man who moves to a backwater Scottish village and strikes up a friendship with his next door neighbor Tommy (Ewen Bremner).
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
Kellyman stars alongside June Squibb as a student, Nina, who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 94-year-old woman who has recently returned back to New York from Florida.
—Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
The two men soon struck up a rapport, and details of murders, multi-ton cocaine deals, and gang rivalries began spilling out of Imperiale.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Andrew Scott stars in the film as Adam, a middle-aged gay screenwriter in London who strikes up a romance with his younger neighbor, Harry (Paul Mescal), while working on a screenplay about his late parents.
—Abby Monteil, Them., 15 Oct. 2025
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
Kellyman stars alongside June Squibb as a student, Nina, who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 94-year-old woman who has recently returned back to New York from Florida.
—Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
The two men soon struck up a rapport, and details of murders, multi-ton cocaine deals, and gang rivalries began spilling out of Imperiale.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Andrew Scott stars in the film as Adam, a middle-aged gay screenwriter in London who strikes up a romance with his younger neighbor, Harry (Paul Mescal), while working on a screenplay about his late parents.
—Abby Monteil, Them., 15 Oct. 2025
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“Strike up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strike%20up. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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