Etymology: Probably cognate with strip n.², stripe n.³; compare West Flemish strip a running stream of liquid, e.g. of milk from a teat. Compare Old Irish sribh stream.

Etymology: Probably < Low German or Dutch: compare modern Dutch strippen to whip, strips flogging (in strips krijgen to get a flogging), also modern West Frisian strips ; but these words have not been found so early as the English word. Compare also Middle Low German strippe strap, whiplash (see strip n.²). The common view that this word is a use of stripe n.³ would be plausible (on the assumption that sense 3 below is the original), but for the fact that stripe n.³ is not recorded till the 17th cent., while this noun occurs in the 15th cent.

Etymology: Not found till the 17th cent., but probably much older. If not a back-formation < striped adj., probably < Middle Low German or Middle Dutch strîpe (early modern Dutch †strijpe ), corresponding to Old High German *strîfo (implied in the derivative strîphaht striped adj.), Middle High German strîfe (modern German streifen ) masculine, Swedish stripa , Danish stribe , also Old Norse, Middle Swedish stríp a striped fabric (compare Icelandic stríprendr striped). Parallel synonymous forms, differing in ablaut-grade, are West Flemish striepe , Middle Dutch strêpe (modern Dutch streep feminine); outside Germanic the Old Irish sríab , stripe ( < *sreibā ), srebnaid striped, are believed to be cognate. The Germanic root *strῑp- (:*straip- ) < pre-Germanic *streib- seems to have been nearly synonymous with *strῑk- < pre-Germanic *streig- (see strike v.), to which it may be ultimately related; the sense of the root is shown in the weak verb Old High German *straifjôn (Middle High German streifen , streipfen , modern German streifen ) to graze, pass over lightly, wander (the modern German streifen also represents Middle High German ströufen : see strip v.¹). For other cognates see strip n.², stripe n.¹, stripe n.², stripe v.¹There would seem to be some obscure relation between the Germanic roots *strῑp- and *streup- (see strip v.¹) similar to that existing between *strῑk- and *streuk- : see strike v.

Etymology: Belongs to stripe n.² Sense 2 is probably a new formation on the noun.

Etymology: < stripe n.³ (in early examples perhaps < strip n.¹) It is possible that striped adj. may have been early adopted < Low German or Dutch, and that the verb is a back-formation.

Etymology: variant of strip v.³