Striker

The team's best striker scored twenty-three goals last season.

When the striker completed a hat-trick, the crowd cheered so loudly they could be heard half a mile away.

They're pinning their hopes on their new striker.

Their striker is really good. We've got to be on our toes.

I'll buy him a fire striker.

I'll buy her a fire striker.

The striker's job was onerous, too, because there was so little "give" in the metal, and the perpetual jarring was indeed trying to the muscles.

Olympiakos had barely been in the Arsenal half but should have levelled in the 14th minute. A low corner was not dealt with and the ball fell to the feet of striker Rafik Djebbour, who saw his close-range effort brilliantly cleared from the goalline by Arteta.

"Dog-robber" has a definite significance to some army men; but unless one has spent some time in uniform he will probably have to search long for its meaning: an officer's servant or striker.

[W]here ever we come to an Anchor, we always ſend out our Strikers, and put out Hooks and Lines overboard, to try for Fiſh.