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.
- Whether the PA in the Gaza strip is a sovereign is highly tricky.
- The band includes an arcuate metallic strip lined with a frictional strip.
- The flanges reinforce the strip making bending of the strip more difficult.
- Martinned: Whether the PA in the Gaza strip is a sovereign is highly tricky.
- Anyway, I agree that the strip is awful, but I thought those two points should be corrected.
- BI: The type of mines is open-cast coal mining or what you call strip mining very similar to mountain top removal in the Appalachians.
- Much has been made by some of how Canadian the strip is and I suppose with the constantly changing seasons there is a particularly distinct northern humor and sensibility.