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• enPR: strĭp, IPA^(key): /stɹɪp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe

strip (countable and uncountable, plural strips)

1. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 19, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.

   You use strips of paper in papier mache.   He welded together some pieces of strip.

2. A comic strip.
3. A landing strip.
4. A strip steak.
5. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
6. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
7. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
8. Striptease.
9. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
10. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)

• (long, thin piece of bacon): rasher

From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”)

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. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
   • 2012 August 21, Pilkington, Ed, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian‎:

     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. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."

   • "Friday the 13th", 1980

     We're going to play Strip Monopoly.

3. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
4. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
   • Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 23

     They stripped Joseph out of his coat.

   • Macaulay

     opinions which […] no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown

   • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.

   • 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian‎:

     The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".

     #* 2013, Paul Harris, Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession (in The Guardian, 19 January 2013)

     After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.

5. (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
6. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.

   The thread is stripped.

   The screw is stripped.

7. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
8. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
9. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
10. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
11. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
12. (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.
13. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
14. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
    • Chapman

      when first they stripped the Malean promontory

    • Beaumont and Fletcher

      Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stripped him.

15. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
16. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
17. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
18. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:strip.

• deprive
• peel
• uncover

strip (not comparable)

1. (of games) Involving the removal of clothes.
   • 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?

     What was going to happen to this cheeky boy, suddenly deprived of his fun-loving mother, and left with his cold father who barely touched him at her funeral? For a long time – a Nazi uniform here, a game of strip billiards there – it looked like the answer was: nothing good.

• strip poker

• OED 2nd edition 1989
• Funk&Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary

• strip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Strip in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• TRIPS, spirt, sprit, stirp, trips

From English strip.

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strip m (plural strips, diminutive stripje n)

1. strip (long thin piece)
2. comic (a cartoon story)

• (strip): strook
• (comic): beeldverhaal

• striptekenaar

strip

1. first-person singular present indicative of strippen
2. imperative of strippen

strip m (plural strips)

1. Abbreviation of striptease.

From English strip.

• IPA^(key): /strîp/

strȉp m (Cyrillic spelling стри̏п)

1. comic (a cartoon story)