strike up (sth)
— phrasal verb with strike uk/straɪk/us/straɪk/verb struck, struck
to start to play or sing something:
When the applause had died down, a band struck up the national anthem.
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Playing music
- accompaniment
- accompany
- busk
- chop
- conduct
- fiddle
- fingering
- improvisation
- interpreter
- jam
- music
- perform
- raise the roof idiom
- serenade
- sight-read
- strike
- strum
- swell
- tap sth out
- tune
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Singing