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field strip

field strip verb: to dismantle (a weapon) for cleaning, oiling or repair; to disassemble (a firearm) to the maximum extent possible without tools.

Verb

field strip (third-person singular simple present field strips, present participle field stripping, simple past and past participle field stripped)

  1. (transitive) To dismantle (a weapon) for cleaning, oiling or repair; to disassemble (a firearm) to the maximum extent possible without tools.
    • He'd learned how to work a repeater - even how to fieldstrip and clean it.1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.
  2. (transitive) To take apart (a cigarette butt) for the purpose of reducing litter.

Forms of field strip

third-person singular presentfield strips
present participlefield stripping
past participlefield stripped
pastfield stripped
alternative formfieldstrip
alternative formfield-strip

Questions about field strip

What does field strip mean?
Field strip means to dismantle (a weapon) for cleaning, oiling or repair; to disassemble (a firearm) to the maximum extent possible without tools.
What part of speech is field strip?
Field strip is a verb.
What is the past tense of field strip?
The past tense of field strip is field stripped.

Words near field strip in the dictionary

  1. field sports
  2. field star
  3. field stars
  4. field stop
  5. field stops
  6. field strip
  7. field stripped
  8. field stripping
  9. field strips
  10. field study
  11. field telephone

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