intransitive. Of an employee: To refuse to continue work; esp. of a body of employees, to cease working by agreement among themselves or by order…

To come or go out for a purpose. intransitive. To abandon one's work as a protest; to go out on strike.

More explicitly to strike work, †tools (cf. sense 23). Also with particular kind of work as object.

intransitive. English regional (north-eastern). In the coal trade: to go on strike. Cf. stick, n.3 3. Obsolete.

intransitive. To come out (in sense 1) for a specified or implied purpose. More fully to come out on strike: to leave work as part of a strike; to go…

intransitive. To go out for a specified or implied purpose. More fully to go out on strike. To leave work as part of a strike; to strike. Cf. to com…

to down tools: to cease working, spec. to go on strike.

transitive. To come upon, light upon, meet with, get at, reach, find, esp. something aimed at. to hit the bricks: (a) (see quot. 1950); (b) to go…