strip

Meaning

Noun

1. A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
2. A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
3. A comic strip.
4. A landing strip.
5. A strip steak.
6. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
7. The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
8. The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
9. A trough for washing ore.
10. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. (slang) A strip club.

Verb

1. To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
2. To take off clothing.
3. To perform a striptease.
4. To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
5. To remove cargo from (a container).
6. To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
7. To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
8. To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
9. To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
10. To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
11. To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
12. To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
13. To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
14. To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
15. 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.
16. To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
17. To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
18. (obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
19. To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
20. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
21. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
22. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
23. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

Synonyms

undress

stripe

band

bare

divest

uncover

disrobe

deprive

peel

tape

denude

skin

belt

unclothe

slip

piece

take off

striptease

rob

streak

comic strip

slice

ribbon

🎀

remove

shell

🐚

flay

plunder

landing strip

airstrip

put off

despoil

dismantle

slat

ray

get undressed

strap

peel off

clear

tear off

expose

ransack

binding

disinvest

shred

steal

take away

uncase

tab

purloin

strip down

lath

leach

abstract

parcel

fillet

denudate

discase

loot

strip show

cartoon strip

section

flight strip

clean

starve

untie

cast off

length

funnies

channel

rifle

lift

disassemble

sever

fleece

write off

zone

plot

discover

slip off

runway

delete

chop

sack

nick

thong

pluck

foray

lot

stroke

cut

ablate

stripped bond

track

doff

scrape off

detect

fluting

bar

dispossess

mark

tear

pillage

board

scrub

eliminate

dividend stripping

expropriate

trace

reave

moult

movie

naked

obviate

omit

pact

pale

pare

patch

peal

period

picket

pickle

pinch

plane

plank

planks

plot of land

pod

poll

preclude

predate

prey

pull

pull down

purge

raid

ravage

relieve

renounce

reveal

rid of

rip

rip up

rive

rod

row

rustle

sash

saw

🪚

scale

scantling

scour

scrap

scratch

scratch out

sector

shave

shear

shuck

site

skim

sliver

snag

snipping

splinter

split off

stand back

stem

stick

strike

strike off

strike out

subtract

sunder

swath

take

take out

take to pieces

tape drive

tapeworm

tear down

thieve

thread

🧵

thresh

throw

tie

treaty

trim

unbelt

unbend

unbind

uncouple

unfasten

unfrock

unhitch

unleash

unmuzzle

unrobe

unscrew

unsolder

vein

violate

weatherstrip

welt

wipe away

wipe off

withdraw

wrest

wring

abscise

blank out

deprive of

escape from

piece of cloth

skim off

spin-dry

cingule

crack

waste

subduct

be nude

be stripped naked

strath mark

do striptease

tear into strips

ice strip

urban strip

make naked

part cut off

make bare

thin-layer

grinding belt

unbare

deprive … of

remove with solvent

abandon

abolish

abrasive belt

abrogate

air strip

alienate

analyse

area

article

bandage

banderol

banderole

batten

bereave

bit

blow

branch

breathe

call in

carve

chip

cingulum

clause

clean out

clip

close out

cloth

come off

cop

👮

cordon

cross off

cross out

crush

cull

cut out

dash

💨

deal

decorticate

deduct

defoliate

defrost

demolish

deplume

detach

detract

devastate

disconnect

disembody

disengage

disjoint

dislodge

dismount

district

divert

division

dock

draw away

drive out

edit

eject

elute

excise

exfoliate

exploit

expunge

extirpate

family name

fell

film

📽️

fin

finger

flake

flake off

flap

flash

fraction

fragment

free

🆓

fringe

girdle

hackle

handhold

harvest

hash

#️⃣

help

hem

hollow out

hoop

hull

husk

inner

item

kill

🔪🩸👤

lamina

law

leave

let go

line

list

lobe

lobule

loop

➿

loosen

lop

louver

louvre

mangle

molt

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɹɪp/

Etymology

Cognate with Irish: sríab

Inherited from Middle English: strepen

Inherited from Old English: strīepan

Cognate with German: Strafe

In summary

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”).