field-stripv.
/ˈfiːldstrɪp/, U.S. /ˈfil(d)ˌstrɪp/ Originally and chiefly U.S.
1. transitive. To dismantle or disassemble (a firearm or other piece of equipment), esp. as one would in the field rather than in a workshop, etc. Cf. strip v.1 8.
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1925 Boston Globe 2 Nov. 12/4 The cup will be awarded to the battery team which shall make the best time in field stripping the gun and reassembling it.
1967 Billboard 4 Nov. 78/3 Quick disconnect plugs—there is no soldering—permit the mechanism to be field stripped in approximately 10 per cent of the time it takes to disassemble other mechanisms.
1995 K. Toolis Rebel Hearts (1996) iii. 124 The next stage of Dermot's induction into the IRA was a basic weapons training course where new Volunteers learned to identify and field-strip weapons.
2004 H. Robbins & J. Podrug Betrayers (2005) 168 I literally field-stripped the jeep's engine and put it back together.
2. transitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly Military). To shred (the butt of a cigarette or cigar), usually so that the pieces can be disposed of without leaving evidence of one's passing.
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1946 Amer. Oxonian Oct. i. 279/1 Jerry Himelhoch got out of the Army abut the end of July and plans..‘never to rise again before 10 A.M., if I can help it, and never again to field-strip a cigarette’.
1948 P. de Pereda All Girls we Loved 57 He'd been field-stripping them as he'd finished them before. Now, he ground the cigarette very deeply and looked at Al.
1975 S. P. Smith Amer. Boys iii. 39 Any man not field-stripping cigarettes deals with me personally.
2004 D. F. Wallace Oblivion 305 He fieldstripped each cigarette butt and put the remains carefully in the pocket of his Hawaiian shirt.
Derivatives
ˈfield-stripped adj.
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1945 J. C. Monks Ribbon & Star vi. 68 The various parts of the field-stripped rifle.
1995 P. Conroy Beach Music (1996) xxi. 338 He could tear down a boat's engine as easily as a recruit could assemble a field-stripped M-1 rifle.
2010 A. J. Fetzer Damage Control v. 91 The field-stripped smokes connected with the method of the kills. A trained hunter.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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