strip
Meanings
noun
- A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
- A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
- A comic strip.
- A landing strip.
- A strip steak.
- A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- A trough for washing ore.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- 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.
- 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.
verb
- To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- To take off clothing.
- To perform a striptease.
- To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- To remove cargo from (a container).
- To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
- To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
- To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
- To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
noun
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
name
- Ellipsis of Gaza Strip (“Levant”).
- Ellipsis of Vegas Strip or Las Vegas Strip, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- Ellipsis of Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Ellipsis of Strip District, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
Derived words
Translations
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.