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Meaning of strip
noun
- A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area. Example: The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.
- (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively. Example: I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.
- A comic strip.
- A landing strip.
- A strip steak.
noun
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease. Example: She stood up on the table and did a strip.
- (of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes. Example: strip poker; strip Scrabble
verb
- To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes. Example: Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
- (usually intransitive) To take off clothing. Example: Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
- To perform a striptease. Example: 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. Example: The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.
- To remove cargo from (a container).
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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