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Verb: strike up
  1. (music) start playing
    "The musicians struck up a tune";
    - sound off
     
  2. Begin
    "strike up a conversation"; "strike up a friendship"

Derived forms: strikes up, struck up, striking up

Type of: initiate, pioneer, play

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