strip

Plural: strips

Noun

• a relatively long narrow piece of something
  • "he felt a flat strip of muscle"
• artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
• an airfield without normal airport facilities
• a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
• thin piece of wood or metal
• a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
  • "she did a strip right in front of everyone"
• A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
• A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
• A comic strip.
• A landing strip.
• A strip steak.
• A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
• The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
• The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
• A trough for washing ore.
• The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
• A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
• An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
• A strip club.
• The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
• Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.

Verb

Verb Forms: stripped, stript, stripping, strips

• To remove the outer covering or layer from.
• take away possessions from someone
  • "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
• get undressed
  • "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
• remove the surface from
  • "strip wood"
• remove substances from by a percolating liquid
• lay bare
• steal goods; take as spoils
• remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
• strip the cured leaves from
  • "strip tobacco"
• remove the thread (of screws)
• remove a constituent from a liquid
• take off or remove
  • "strip a wall of its wallpaper"
• draw the last milk (of cows)
• remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
• To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
• To take off clothing.
• To perform a striptease.
• To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
• To remove cargo from (a container).
• To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
• To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
• To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
• To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
• To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
• To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
• To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
• To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
• To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
• To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
• To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
• To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
• To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
• To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
• To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
• To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
• To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
• To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

Examples

• Don't park your car here overnight, otherwise it will be stripped by morning.
• Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.
• He had to strip his rack of low-value letters to make room for a bingo draw.
• I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.
• In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
• Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
• Papier mache is made from strips of paper.
• Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
• She stood up on the table and did a strip.
• Squeeze a strip of glue along the edge and then press down firmly.
• The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.
• The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.
• The screw is stripped.
• They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.

Synonyms

airstrip, bare, cartoon strip, clean, comic strip, denudate, denude, deprive, despoil, discase, disinvest, dismantle, disrobe, divest, flight strip, foray, funnies, landing strip, leach, loot, peel, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, slip, strip down, strip show, striptease, uncase, unclothe, undress, uncover

Antonyms

dress

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