strip
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/stɹɪp/
English
Definitions
noun
- 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.”
- (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.“I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.”
- A comic strip.
- A landing strip.
noun
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.“She stood up on the table and did a strip.”
- (of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.“strip poker; strip Scrabble”
verb
- To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.“Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.”
- (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.“Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.”
- To perform a striptease.“In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.”
- To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.“The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.”
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