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hunger strike

 
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–noun
a deliberate refusal to eat, undertaken in protest against imprisonment, improper treatment, objectionable conditions, etc.
Origin:
1885–90
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hun⋅ger-strike

  [huhng-ger-strahyk]
–verb (used without object), -struck, -strik⋅ing.
to go on a hunger strike.
Origin:
1910–15

Related forms:
hunger striker, noun
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hunger strike  
n.  A voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest, as by a prisoner.
hunger striker n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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