/stɹɪp/
OriginFrom 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”).
- countableA 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.”
- countable, sometimes, uncountable, usuallyA 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.”
- countable, uncountableA comic strip.
- countable, uncountableA landing strip.
- countable, uncountableA strip steak.
- US, countable, uncountableA street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- countable, uncountableThe playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- UK, countable, uncountableThe uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- countable, uncountableA trough for washing ore.
- countable, uncountableThe 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”
“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 ammunit”
- countable, uncountableA 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," whi”
- countable, uncountableAn 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, slang, uncountableA strip club.
“You be throwing cash in the strip
My lil' bitch sucking dick for the free.”
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
“She stood up on the table and did a strip.”
- attributiveDenotes 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, an”
- transitiveTo remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
“Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.”
- intransitive, usuallyTo 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 w”
- intransitiveTo perform a striptease.
“In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.”
- transitiveTo 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.”
- transitiveTo remove cargo from (a container).
- transitiveTo 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.”
- intransitiveTo fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- transitiveTo 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 mo”
- intransitiveTo 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”
- transitiveTo remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- transitiveTo remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- transitiveTo empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- transitiveTo 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.
- transitiveTo 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.
- transitiveTo pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- transitiveTo remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
- obsolete, transitiveTo 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.”
- 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).
- abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informalEllipsis of Gaza Strip (“Levant”).
- abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informalEllipsis of Vegas Strip or Las Vegas Strip, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informalEllipsis of Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informalEllipsis of Strip District, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Formsstrips(plural) · strips(present, singular, third-person) · stripping(participle, present) · stripped(participle, past) · stripped(past) · the Strip(canonical)