strip /strip/

1. To pull, peel, or tear off
2. To doff
3. To divest
4. To undress
5. To reduce to the ranks
6. To deprive of a covering
7. To skin, peel, husk
8. To lay bare, expose
9. To deprive
10. To clear, empty
11. To dismantle
12. To clear of fruit, leaves, stems, midribs, or any other part
13. To press out the last milk from (a cow, etc) or obtain (milk) in this way
14. To press out the roe or milt from
15. To handle as if milking a cow
16. To cut in strips
17. To put strips on
18. To outstrip, press (obsolete)
19. To remove a constituent from a substance by boiling, distillation, etc (chem)
20. To break the thread of (a screw, etc) or a tooth of (a gear)
21. To unload (esp a container or lorry)

1. To undress
2. To perform a striptease
3. (of a screw) to be stripped of the thread
4. To come off
5. To go swiftly (obsolete)

1. A long narrow piece
2. A long thin piece of rolled metal, such as steel strip
3. A narrow space in a newspaper in which a story is told in pictures (also strip cartoon)
4. A lightweight uniform, esp one displaying the club colours, for running, football, etc
5. A striptease
6. An airstrip
7. A row of three or more connected stamps
8. A road lined with shops and other business premises (N American)

stripˈogram or strippˈergram noun

A message delivered by a messenger who performs a striptease act for the recipient

strippˈer noun

1. Someone who or something that strips
2. A striptease artist

strippˈings plural noun

The last milk drawn at a milking

strip cartoon see n above.

strip cell noun

A secure room without furnishings or fittings, in eg a psychiatric hospital, in which seriously disturbed patients are confined

strip club noun

One which regularly features striptease artists

strip cropping noun

The cultivation of different crops in bands to prevent erosion

strip joint noun (informal)

A strip club

stripˈ-leaf noun

Tobacco stripped of stalks

strip light noun

A light containing a long fluorescent tube

strip lighting noun

strip mall noun (US)

A shopping mall in which the shops are arranged in a row along a roadside

strip map noun

A map showing a long narrow strip of country, used esp by airmen

strip mill noun

A mill where steel is rolled into strips

strip mine noun

An opencast mine in which the overburden is removed (stripped) before the valuable ore is excavated

stripped atom noun

An ionized atom from which one or more electrons have been removed

stripped-downˈ adjective

Reduced to the bare essentials

strip-poˈker noun

Poker in which losses are paid by removing articles of clothing

strip search noun

A search of a person's body (for hidden items, eg drugs, contraband) for which their clothes are removed

• double-shuffles
• double-space
• double-spaced
• double-spaces
• double spacing
• double-spacing
• double spare
• doublespeak
• double spread
• double standard
• double standards
• double star
• double stars
• double-stopping
• double-storey
• double-stout
• doublet
• double take
• double takes
• double-talk
• doublethink
• doublethinks
• double-threaded screw
• double-threaded screws
• double time