Etymology From 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”).
The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.
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Sometimes, 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.
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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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
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.2012 May 8, Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, Random House, →ISBN, page 79:
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A comic strip.
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A landing strip.
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A strip steak.
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US A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
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,1862, Henry Charles Watson, Eight Lectures Delivered at the School of Musketry, Hythe, Being an Explanation of the 'theoretical Principles' as Laid Down in the Book of Musketry Instruction, page 78:
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 May 23, “Improved System of Rifling”, in English Mechanics and the World of Science, volume 17, number 426, page 241:
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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.1874, J.B. O'Hea, “Rifles and Rifling”, in Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, volume 17, pages 367–368:
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Broadcasting, Media, Television 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.1955, Billboard, page 5:
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Business, Finance 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.
Etymology From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).
To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
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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, […]c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 49–53:
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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."2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
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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 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.
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Don't park your car here overnight, otherwise it will be stripped by morning.
They stript Joseph out of his coat.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 32:23:
opinions which […] no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.
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To remove cargo from (a container).
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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.
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To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
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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.1859, James Dalziel Dougall, The rifle simplified, page 29:
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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.1859, James Dalziel Dougall, The rifle simplified, page 31:
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To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
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Bridge, Games To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
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To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
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To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
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To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
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Broadcasting, Media, Television 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.
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Agriculture, Business, Lifestyle To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
when first they stripp'd the Malean promontory1618, George Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo:
Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stript him.1612–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Honest Mans Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
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To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
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To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
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To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
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To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
Etymology From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).
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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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Of games 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.1980, Victor Miller, Friday the 13th (film)
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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.