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strip

/ˈstɹɪp/

strip noun: a long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.

Noun (1)

strip (countable and uncountable, plural 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. (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.
    Synonyms:
    slip
  3. A comic strip.
  4. A landing strip.
  5. A strip steak.
  6. (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
  7. The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
  8. (UK) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
  9. A trough for washing ore.
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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. (slang) A strip club.
    • You be throwing cash in the strip
      My lil' bitch sucking dick for the free.2022, Armani White, “Billie Eilish”, in Road to Casablanco

Verb

strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle 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.
    • 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
  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.
    • They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.
  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.
    • The screw is stripped.
  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.1859, James Dalziel Dougall, The rifle simplified, page 29
  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...1859, James Dalziel Dougall, The rifle simplified, page 31
  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).
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  1. (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’.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 26
  2. To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
  3. (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.
  4. (transitive) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
  5. (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
    • 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...
  7. To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
  8. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
  9. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
  10. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into “hands”.
  11. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

Noun (2)

strip (plural 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
    • We're going to play Strip Monopoly.1980, Victor Miller, Friday the 13th (film)

Proper noun capitalized: Strip

the Strip

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

strip meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

strip in Hindi

स्ट्रिप

strip in Tamil

ஸ்ட்ரிப்

strip in Urdu

پٹی, سٹرپ

strip in Bengali

স্ট্রিপ
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strip in Telugu
స్ట్రిప్
strip in Malayalam
സ്ട്രിപ്പ്
strip in Kannada
ಸ್ಟ್ರಿಪ್
strip in Punjabi
ਸਟਰਿੱਪ, ਸਟ੍ਰਿਪ, ਪੱਟੀ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
strip in Gujarati
સ્ટ્રીપ
strip in Odia
ଷ୍ଟ୍ରିପ୍
strip in Nepali
पट्टी, स्ट्रिप, स्ट्रिप गर्न
strip in Arabic
شَرِيط šarīṭ, قِطَاع qiṭāʕ, خَطّ ḵaṭṭ
strip in Malay
genting
strip in Indonesian
jalur
strip in Thai
แก้ผ้า gɛ̂ɛ-pâa, เปลื้องผ้า, เปลือยกาย
strip in Vietnamese
dải, tuôn

Examples of strip in a sentence

  • I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.
  • The apartment was stripped clean by the previous tenants.
  • Don't park your car here overnight, otherwise it will be stripped by morning.
  • 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  • 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:
  • 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.2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:

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Synonyms of strip

Forms of strip

Noun
pluralstrips
Verb
third-person singular presentstrips
present participlestripping
past participlestripped
paststripped

Past tense of strip: stripped

Plural of strip: strips

Origin of strip

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”).

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”).

Words formed from strip

Phrases with strip

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Questions about strip

What does strip mean?
Strip means a long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
What is strip in Hindi?
Strip in Hindi is स्ट्रिप. See Strip meaning in Hindi.
How do you use strip in a sentence?
I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.
What part of speech is strip?
Strip can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce strip?
Strip is pronounced /ˈstɹɪp/.
What is the plural of strip?
The plural of strip is strips.

Words near strip in the dictionary

  1. striopallidal
  2. striopallidodentate
  3. striosomal
  4. striosome
  5. striosomes
  6. strip
  7. strip away
  8. strip bar
  9. strip bars
  10. strip cartoon
  11. strip cartoons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: strip (page history and authors); Strip (page history and authors); strip (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); strip (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); strip (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); strip (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); strip (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); strip (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); strip (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); strip (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); strip (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); strip (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); strip (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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