Strip

noun strips

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.
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,
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.

verb strips · stripping · stripped

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.
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.
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.
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
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. As the calves were bellowing their heads off waiting to be fed, I let them all in with their mothers for a ten-minutes ‘go’, and had considered I had done the Armytages’ cows a good turn by having them ‘stripped’.
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
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).

Similar: deprive, peel, uncover

noun strips

1. The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease. She stood up on the table and did a strip.
2. attributive Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes. strip poker; strip Scrabble

proper noun the Strip

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