Sekirov Dictionary

strip

/ˈstɹɪp/

noun 15
verb 23
forms 6
phrases 5

noun15

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a piece of some material, such as paper or metal, that is much longer than it is wide
- Papier mache is made from strips of paper.
- Squeeze a strip of glue along the edge and then press down] firmly.
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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.
A landing strip.
The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
A comic strip.
(US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
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The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- She stood up on the table and did a strip.
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[before a noun] Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
- 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.
(UK) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
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(slang) A strip club.
- You be throwing cash in the strip My lil' bitch sucking dick for the free. — 2022
A strip steak.
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.
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.
A trough for washing ore.
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The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- 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. — 1873

verb23

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To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
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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.
To remove cargo from (a container).
To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
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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To take off clothing.
- Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
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To perform a striptease.
- In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
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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.
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
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.
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.
To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
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(no longer used) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
- when first they stripp'd the Malean promontory — 1618

forms

stripped · stript · stripping · strippeth · strips · strippest

Phrases with strip

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