of or pertaining to ore or coal that can be produced by strip mining
2.
capable of being stripped off
strippable wallpaper
Word origin
[1970–75; strip1 + -able]This word is first recorded in the period 1970–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Heimlich maneuver, cornrow, postmodernism, relational database, stress test-able is a suffix meaning “capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to,”associated in meaning with the word able, occurring in loanwords from Latin (laudable); used in English as a highly productive suffix to form adjectives by addition tostems of any origin (teachable; photographable)