stryker
/stɹˈaɪkɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.79 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of Stryker (emergency stretcher).
name
A surname
noun
An eight-wheeled armoured combat vehicle used by the US Army.
Example Sentences
- "1973, Modern hospital: Volume 120; Volume 120, link Because we feel that a stretcher should be more than a means of patient transport, we don't offer a standard Stryker stretcher."
- "The handles on the Stryker stretcher can by extended after a locking button has been pressed"
- "Of course—anyone would expect the rest to happen—I wake up in the Sea-Clift EMS track, strapped to a yellow Stryker stretcher, shirtless and jacketless, covered with a thin pink blanket, my feet toward the back door"
- "The Army has named its 8-wheeled Light Armored Vehicle III the Stryker. The Army will field its first Stryker variant, an infantry combat vehicle, at Anniston, Ala."
- "The vast majority of Interim Force activities are swirling around the “Stryker” Interim Armored Vehicle (IAV) family from the General Motors–GDLS Defense Group joint venture. The IAV is a heavier, more modern version of the eight-wheeled Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) III from GM of Canada that is used by the Marine Corps and Canadian forces."
- "2004, National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Operational Test Design and Evaluation of the Interim Armored Vehicle, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Improved operational testing and evaluation: and methods of combining test information for the Stryker family of vehicles and related Army systems, link Test Process The Army's interim armored combat vehicle, now called the Stryker, is in the latter stages of development."
Etymology
* (surname): * (gurney): Genericization of a trademark. From the name of the Stryker Corporation, which manufactured several gurneys in this style. From the name of the founder of the company, Homer Stryker. * (armoured vehicle): Originating from 2002, named for two Americans who posthumously received the Medal of Honor: PFC Stuart S. Stryker, who died in World War II, and SP4 Robert F. Stryker, who died in the Vietnam War.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Stryker brigade
Stryker brigade combat team