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What does strip mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word strip? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
  2. A comic strip.
  3. A landing strip.
  4. A strip steak.
  5. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
  6. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
  7. (UK) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
  8. Striptease.
  9. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
  10. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To remove or take away.
  2. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
  3. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
  4. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
  5. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
  6. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
  7. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
  8. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
  9. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
  10. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
  11. (television, transitive) 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.
  12. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
  13. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
  14. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
  15. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
  16. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
  17. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
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