A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
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.
I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.
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.
The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
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.
strip poker; strip Scrabble
To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
(usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
To perform a striptease.
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.
The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.
To remove cargo from (a container).
To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
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).
To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
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.
To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).