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Strip

//stɹɪp// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
Ellipsis of Gaza Strip (“Levant”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
2
Ellipsis of Vegas Strip or Las Vegas Strip, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
3
Ellipsis of Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles, California, USA. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
4
Ellipsis of Strip District, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal

Noun

1
A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area. countable
"The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide."
2
The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
"She stood up on the table and did a strip."
3
a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music wordnet
4
A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively. countable, sometimes, uncountable, usually
"Papier mache is made from strips of paper."
5
Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes. attributive
"strip poker; strip Scrabble"

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6
an airfield without normal airport facilities wordnet
7
A comic strip. countable, uncountable
8
artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material wordnet
9
A landing strip. countable, uncountable
10
thin piece of wood or metal wordnet
11
A strip steak. countable, uncountable
12
a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book wordnet
13
A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities. US, countable, uncountable
14
a relatively long narrow piece of something wordnet
15
The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters. countable, uncountable
16
The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters. UK, countable, uncountable
17
A trough for washing ore. countable, uncountable
18
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. countable, uncountable
"You learn, in 'Cleaning Arms,' how rust may cause a 'strip,' and how it must interfere with expansion. I need hardly say, that if the grooves be filled up, the rotation will be lost; or if the grooves be partially filled up, the rotation will be weak,"
19
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. countable, uncountable
"ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip. The web is using its "Mickey Mouse Club," which is stoutly anchored in the 5-6 p.m. slot, as a backing up point for its afternoon expansion."
20
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. countable, uncountable
21
A strip club. countable, slang, uncountable
"You be throwing cash in the strip My lil' bitch sucking dick for the free."

Verb

1
To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes. transitive
"Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair."
2
get undressed wordnet
3
To take off clothing. intransitive, usually
"Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river."
4
remove (someone's or one's own) clothes wordnet
5
To perform a striptease. intransitive
"In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping."

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draw the last milk (of cows) wordnet
7
To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest. transitive
"The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test."
8
take off or remove wordnet
9
To remove cargo from (a container). transitive
10
remove a constituent from a liquid wordnet
11
To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening. transitive
"Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread."
12
remove the thread (of screws) wordnet
13
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. intransitive
14
lay bare wordnet
15
To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling. transitive
"Well, strange to say, it is the opinion of "Stonehenge," and other good judges, that no rifle so readily strips its ball, which consequently passes through the barrel without receiving the rotatory motion, and performs the most eccentric flights."
16
remove substances from by a percolating liquid wordnet
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To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel. intransitive
"The number of grooves being only three, admits of these being shallow, so that the ball does not strip readily, while a further most ingenious adaptation is that the grooves be trice as deep (but, let the reader remember that such measurements are made by five-thousanths of an inch) at the breech as at the mizzle, so that the ball always becoming more compressed as it leaves the barrel."
18
remove the surface from wordnet
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To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color. transitive
20
strip the cured leaves from wordnet
21
To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.) transitive
22
remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely wordnet
23
To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing). transitive
24
take away possessions from someone wordnet
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To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk. transitive
26
steal goods; take as spoils wordnet
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To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
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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. transitive
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To pare off the surface of (land) in strips. transitive
30
To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit). transitive
31
To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. obsolete, transitive
"when first they stripp'd the Malean promontory"
32
To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
33
To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
34
To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
35
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
36
To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

Etymology

Etymology 1

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).

Etymology 3

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