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strips

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/stɹɪps/ English

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noun

  1. The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.“She stood up on the table and did a strip.”
  2. (of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.“strip poker; strip Scrabble”

verb

  1. To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.“Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.”
  2. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.“Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.”
  3. To perform a striptease.“In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.”
  4. 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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