prestrike

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ strike.

Adjective

prestrike (not comparable)

1. Before a strike (work stoppage as protest).
2. Before the striking motion of a snake.
   • 1992, Carl Gans, Philip Steven Ulinski, Biology of the Reptilia, page 435:

     The nine phases may be clustered into three subgroups: prestrike, strike, and poststrike behavior.