Verb strike up has 2 senses
  1. sound off, strike up - start playing; "The musicians struck up a tune"
    --1 is one way to play
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  2. strike up - begin; "strike up a conversation"; "strike up a friendship"
    --2 is one way to
    initiate, pioneer
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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