strip

IPA: strˈɪp

noun

  • (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
  • (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
  • A comic strip.
  • A landing strip.
  • A strip steak.
  • (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
  • (fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
  • (UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
  • (mining) A trough for washing ore.
  • The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
  • (television) 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.
  • (finance) 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.
  • (slang) A strip club.
  • The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
  • (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
  • (informal) Ellipsis of Gaza Strip (“Levant”). [A region of Palestine, Levant, between Egypt and Israel: A small area of land on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, a Palestinian territory bordered by Egypt and Israel.]
  • (informal) Ellipsis of Las Vegas Strip (“Las Vegas, Nevada, USA”). (Vegas Strip)
  • (informal) Ellipsis of Sunset Strip (“Los Angeles, California, USA”).
  • (informal) Ellipsis of Strip District (“Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA”).

verb

  • (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
  • (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
  • (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
  • (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
  • (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
  • (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
  • (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
  • (transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
  • (intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
  • (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
  • (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
  • (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
  • (transitive) 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.
  • (television, transitive) 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, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
  • (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
  • (transitive, obsolete) 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).
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Examples of "strip" in Sentences

  • He stripped his clothes.
  • Why are they stripping here
  • He stripped to take a shower.
  • One strip clothes in the room.
  • The main character is stripping.
  • The strips are conformable to the frame.
  • Bending the strip increases the resistance.
  • Gamble on the Strip, then gambol in the desert.
  • The band includes an arcuate metallic strip lined with a frictional strip.
  • The flanges reinforce the strip making bending of the strip more difficult.

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