Definition of “strafe”

Usage examples

• Once those helicopters got into the air, they would be able to strafe the guerrillas almost at leisure.

  Shah, Idries, Kara Kush (1986)

• In at least one case, the RNA is reported to have used helicopter gunships to strafe and bomb'Maoists' in the Dailekh district.

  Outlook India (2005)

• Imperial Britain ruled Iraq from the 1920s until 1958 by relying on the RAF to bomb and strafe rebellious tribesmen.

  Toronto Sun (2003)

• US soldiers came under rocket fire at Asadabad yesterday and sent in warplanes to strafe their attackers ' position.

  Sun, News of the World (2002)

• Johnnie then organized a small party and, as our jets thundered in to strafe the enemy, led them to a hollow near where the dead lay.

  Blashford-Snell, John, Something Lost Behind the Ranges (1994)