strike up (English, verb)
expansion: strike up (third-person singular simple present strikes up, present participle striking up, simple past struck up, past participle struck up or (rare or archaic) stricken up)
Senses:
glosses: To start something with somebody else, such as a conversation or relationship.
tags: idiomatic
transitive
glosses: To start something, usually playing live music.
tags: ergative
idiomatic
intransitive
glosses: To raise (as sheet metal), in making dishes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die.
Forms:
form: strikes up
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: striking up
tags: participle
present
form: struck up
tags: past
form: struck up
tags: participle
past
form: stricken up
tags: archaic
participle
past
rare