strip

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
2. (intransitive, usually) To take off clothing.
3. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
4. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
5. (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
6. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
7. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
8. (transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
9. (intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
10. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
11. (transitive) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
12. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
13. (transitive) 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. (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.
16. (transitive) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
17. (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
18. (obsolete, transitive) 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

disrobe

uncover

peel

deprive

tape

denude

unclothe

belt

skin

piece

take off

slip

striptease

rob

streak

comic strip

slice

ribbon

🎀

remove

shell

🐚

flay

slat

landing strip

dismantle

ray

put off

plunder

despoil

airstrip

strap

get undressed

shred

binding

expose

tear off

disinvest

clear

peel off

ransack

abstract

strip down

loot

lath

leach

steal

Translations

desnudar

tira

tira

bande

Streifen

denudare

striscia

ausziehen

despojar

desnudarse

lista

pelar

spogliare

enlever

se déshabiller

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”).