Definitions from Wiktionary (Strip)
▸ noun: (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
▸ noun: (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
▸ noun: A comic strip.
▸ noun: A landing strip.
▸ noun: A strip steak.
▸ noun: (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
▸ noun: (fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
▸ noun: (UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
▸ noun: (mining) A trough for washing ore.
▸ noun: The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (slang) A strip club.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
▸ verb: (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
▸ verb: (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
▸ verb: (transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
▸ verb: (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
▸ verb: (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
▸ verb: (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
▸ verb: To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
▸ verb: (television, 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.
▸ verb: (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
▸ verb: To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
▸ verb: To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
▸ verb: To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
▸ verb: To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
▸ verb: To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
▸ noun: The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
▸ noun: (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
▸ noun: (informal) Ellipsis of Gaza Strip (“Levant”). [A region in Palestine between Egypt and Israel.]
▸ noun: (informal) Ellipsis of Las Vegas Strip (“Las Vegas, Nevada, USA”). (Vegas Strip)
▸ noun: (informal) Ellipsis of Sunset Strip (“Los Angeles, California, USA”).
▸ noun: (informal) Ellipsis of Strip District (“Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA”).
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▸ noun: (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
▸ noun: (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
▸ noun: A comic strip.
▸ noun: A landing strip.
▸ noun: A strip steak.
▸ noun: (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
▸ noun: (fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
▸ noun: (UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
▸ noun: (mining) A trough for washing ore.
▸ noun: The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (slang) A strip club.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
▸ verb: (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
▸ verb: (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
▸ verb: (transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
▸ verb: (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
▸ verb: (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
▸ verb: (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
▸ verb: To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
▸ verb: (television, 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.
▸ verb: (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
▸ verb: To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
▸ verb: To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
▸ verb: To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
▸ verb: To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
▸ verb: To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
▸ noun: The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
▸ noun: (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
▸ noun: (informal) Ellipsis of Gaza Strip (“Levant”). [A region in Palestine between Egypt and Israel.]
▸ noun: (informal) Ellipsis of Las Vegas Strip (“Las Vegas, Nevada, USA”). (Vegas Strip)
▸ noun: (informal) Ellipsis of Sunset Strip (“Los Angeles, California, USA”).
▸ noun: (informal) Ellipsis of Strip District (“Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA”).
▸ Also see strip
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