strip

1. (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.Examples: "Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair."transitive

2. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.Examples: "Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river."; "The hy auter he strypte naked; There on he stode, and craked; He shoke downe all the clothys, And sware horryble othes Before the face of God, […]"; "The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go.""intransitiveusually

3. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.Examples: "In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping."intransitive

4. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.Examples: "The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test."; "They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing."; "Don't park your car here overnight, otherwise it will be stripped by morning."transitive

5. (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).transitive

6. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.Examples: "Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread."; "The screw is stripped."transitive

1. (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.Examples: "strip poker; strip Scrabble"; "We're going to play Strip Monopoly."; "20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? What was going to happen to this cheeky boy, suddenly deprived of his fun-loving mother, and left with his cold father who barely touched him at her funeral? For a long time – a Nazi uniform here, a game of strip billiards there – it looked like the answer was: nothing good."attributive

1. (informal) Ellipsis of Gaza Strip (“Levant”).abbreviationalt-ofellipsisinformal

2. (informal) Ellipsis of Vegas Strip or Las Vegas Strip, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.abbreviationalt-ofellipsisinformal

3. (informal) Ellipsis of Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles, California, USA.abbreviationalt-ofellipsisinformal

4. (informal) Ellipsis of Strip District, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.abbreviationalt-ofellipsisinformal