strip

1 a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle"

2 artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material [syn: slip]

3 an airfield without normal airport facilities [syn: airstrip, flight strip, landing strip]

4 a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book [syn: comic strip, cartoon strip]

5 thin piece of wood or metal

6 a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone" [syn: striptease, strip show]

1 take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets" [syn: deprive, divest]

2 get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living" [syn: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip down, disrobe, peel] [ant: dress, dress]

3 remove the surface from; "strip wood"

4 remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil" [syn: leach]

5 lay bare; "denude a forest" [syn: denude, bare, denudate]

6 steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]

7 remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm" [syn: clean]

8 strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"

9 remove the thread (of screws)

10 remove a constituent from a liquid

11 take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn: dismantle]

12 draw the last milk (of cows)

13 remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments" [syn: undress, divest, disinvest] [also: stripping, stripped]stripped adj

1 having only essential or minimal features; "a stripped new car"; "a stripped-down budget" [syn: stripped-down]

2 having extraneous everything removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare" [syn: bare]

3 with clothing stripped offstripped See strip

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Pronunciation

Verb

stripped

1. past of strip

A strip is a long, thin piece of a bigger item; strip or stripped may refer to:

• Landing strip or runway, where airplanes land
• Landing strip, type of hairstyle
• removing the insulation from the core of an electrical wire, known as stripping the wire
• Power strip, strip of power sockets
• Strip steak, type of beef steak
• Möbius strip, surface with one side and one boundary component
• Triangle strip, method for rendering computer graphics
• Strip (Unix), Unix command
• strip, financial instrument
• Striptease, act of removing one's clothes slowly to music
• Strip search, removal of a person's clothing to check for contraband
• Strip mall, small, neighborhood shopping area
• Stripping (chemistry), removal of one or more components from a liquid stream to a vapor stream

In comics:

• Comic strip, drawing
• Sunday strip, newspaper comic strip format
• The Strip (comic), UK free comics magazine

In TV, film, or video:

• Stripping (television), method of broadcasting consecutive episodes

In locations:

• Agacher Strip War, 100-mile long strip of land in northeastern Burkina Faso
• Aozou Strip, strip of land in northern Chad
• Caprivi Strip, narrow protrusion of Namibia
• Cherokee Outlet or Cherokee Strip, strip of land south of the Oklahoma-Kansas border
• Cherokee Strip (Kansas), disputed strip of land in southern Kansas
• Cotai Strip, name of Las Vegas Sands' casino resort project in Macau
• Frontier Strip, region of U.S. states from North Dakota south to Texas
• Gaza Strip, narrow strip of land along the Mediterranean, in the Middle East
• Las Vegas Strip, section of Las Vegas Boulevard South
• Mayor Magrath Drive or The Strip, roadway in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
• Sabine Free State or Neutral Strip, strip of land between America's Louisiana Purchase and Spanish Texas
• Sunset Strip, 1.5 mile stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California
• Tarfaya Strip, strip of land located at the southernmost tip of Morocco
• Toledo strip, the cause of the Toledo War

In music:

• Stripped (song), single by Depeche Mode
• Stripped (Rammstein single), German industrial metal band's cover of the earlier Depeche Mode single
• Strip (album) by Adam Ant, and his single of the same name
• Stripped (Rolling Stones album), live album released in 1995
• Stripped (Christina Aguilera album), her second English studio album

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