strat

• IPA^(key): /stɹæt/

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strat (plural strats)

1. (video games, slang) Clipping of strategy
   • 2014 March 19, Free to Play (Film), Toby Dawson (actor):

     With Tiny, it is good as a surprise strat. If another team doesn't realize where he fits into the whole lineup, then you can really throw the opposition off balance.

   • 2023 July 26, Jeremy Gan, “Only Up speedrun records: Fastest completion, Any% glitchless, unrestricted, more”, in Dexerto‎^[1]:

     Many of the strats for the Glitchless speedrun came from Distortion2, who is a widely known speedrunner who has broken records in games Elden Ring and Seikiro.

   • 2025 January 7, Michelle Cornelia, “Marvel Rivals players convinced Invisible Woman will enable classic Overwatch strat”, in Dexerto‎^[2]:

     Marvel Rivals’ upcoming Strategist, Invisible Woman, could be set to bring back this one infamous strat from Overwatch thanks to her powerful kit.

• start, trats, tarts, Tarts, START, Start

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrat/
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: strat

strat f

1. genitive plural of strata

Inherited from Latin strātum.

strat n (plural straturi)

1. layer

   Synonyms: acoperământ, așternut, înveliș

2. section, strip
3. coating
4. (popular) bed

   Synonym: pat

5. stratum

• stradă

Cognate with English strawed.

• IPA^(key): /strat/

strat

1. A short rope made of hay or straw.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 70