strip

noun

1. (countable)A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.

   “The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.”

2. (countable, sometimes, uncountable, usually)A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.

   “Papier mache is made from strips of paper.”

   “Squeeze a strip of glue along the edge and then press down firmly.”

   “I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.”

   “At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.”

   “First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.”

3. (countable, uncountable)A comic strip.
4. (countable, uncountable)A landing strip.
5. (countable, uncountable)A strip steak.
6. (US, countable, uncountable)A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
7. (countable, uncountable)The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
8. (UK, countable, uncountable)The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
9. (countable, uncountable)A trough for washing ore.
10. (countable, uncountable)The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

    “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,”

    “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.”

    “What struck me as very marvellous was that in the course of a day's firing, with so many varieties of "part" rifling, there was not a single strip; I expected to have seen some strips, for the ammunition was exceeding bad, independently of the novelty of the "part" system.”

11. (countable, uncountable)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.

    “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.”

12. (countable, uncountable)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.
13. (countable, slang, uncountable)A strip club.

    “You be throwing cash in the strip My lil' bitch sucking dick for the free.”

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

    “She stood up on the table and did a strip.”

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

    “strip poker; strip Scrabble”

    “We're going to play Strip Monopoly.”

    “20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? What was going to happen to this cheeky boy, suddenly deprived of his fun-loving mother, and left with his cold father who barely touched him at her funeral? For a long time – a Nazi uniform here, a game of strip billiards there – it looked like the answer was: nothing good.”

verb

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

   “Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.”

2. (intransitive, usually)To take off clothing.

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

   “The hy auter he strypte naked; There on he stode, and craked; He shoke downe all the clothys, And sware horryble othes Before the face of God, […]”

   “The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."”

3. (intransitive)To perform a striptease.

   “In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.”

4. (transitive)To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.

   “The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.”

   “They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.”

   “Don't park your car here overnight, otherwise it will be stripped by morning.”

   “They stript Joseph out of his coat.”

   “opinions which […] no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown”

5. (transitive)To remove cargo from (a container).
6. (transitive)To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.

   “Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.”

   “The screw is stripped.”

7. (intransitive)To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
8. (transitive)To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.

   “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.”

9. (intransitive)To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.

   “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.”

10. (transitive)To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
11. (transitive)To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
12. (transitive)To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
13. (transitive)To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
14. To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
15. (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.
16. (transitive)To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
17. (transitive)To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
18. (obsolete, transitive)To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

    “when first they stripp'd the Malean promontory”

    “Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stript him.”

19. To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
20. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
21. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
22. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
23. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

name

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