strip

1. 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. 2

   A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.countablesometimesuncountable

   • Papier mache is made from strips of paper.
   • Squeeze a strip of glue along the edge and then press down] firmly.
3. 3

   A comic strip.countableuncountable

4. 4

   A landing strip.countableuncountable

5. 5

   A strip steak.countableuncountable

6. 6

   A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.UScountableuncountable

7. 7

   The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.countableuncountable

8. 8

   The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.UKcountableuncountable

9. 9

   A trough for washing ore.countableuncountable

10. 10

    The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.countableuncountable

    • He has fired more than 100 rounds per barrel at a time, from nearly all the barrels converted on this system, without cleaning, and without having a strip, or failure as regards vertical accuracy.

1. 1

   To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.transitive

   • Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
2. 2

   To take off clothing.intransitiveusually

   • Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
3. 3

   To perform a striptease.intransitive

   • In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
4. 4

   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.
   • They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.
5. 5

   To remove cargo from (a container).transitive

6. 6

   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.
   • The screw is stripped.
7. 7

   To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.intransitive

8. 8

   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 fl
9. 9

   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 measureme
10. 10

    To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.transitive

syn. deprive · peel · uncover

1. 1

   The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.

   • She stood up on the table and did a strip.
2. 2

   Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.attributive

   • strip poker; strip Scrabble
   • We're going to play Strip Monopoly.