strip.
A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
Meaning & usage
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.
A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
Papier mache is made from strips of paper.
Squeeze a strip of glue along the edge and then press down] firmly.
A comic strip.
A landing strip.
A strip steak.
A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
A trough for washing ore.
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
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.
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.
A strip club.
Where this word comes from
From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).
To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
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.
They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.
To remove cargo from (a container).
To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.
The screw is stripped.
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
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.
To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into “hands”.
To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
Where this word comes from
From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).
The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
She stood up on the table and did a strip.
Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
strip poker; strip Scrabble
Where this word comes from
From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.