strip /strip/

1. To pull, peel, or tear off
2. To doff
3. To divest
4. To undress
5. To reduce to the ranks
6. To deprive of a covering
7. To skin, peel, husk
8. To lay bare, expose
9. To deprive
10. To clear, empty
11. To dismantle
12. To clear of fruit, leaves, stems, midribs, or any other part
13. To press out the last milk from (a cow, etc) or obtain (milk) in this way
14. To press out the roe or milt from
15. To handle as if milking a cow
16. To cut in strips
17. To put strips on
18. To outstrip, press (obsolete)
19. To remove a constituent from a substance by boiling, distillation, etc (chem)
20. To break the thread of (a screw, etc) or a tooth of (a gear)
21. To unload (esp a container or lorry)

1. To undress
2. To perform a striptease
3. (of a screw) to be stripped of the thread
4. To come off
5. To go swiftly (obsolete)

1. A long narrow piece
2. A long thin piece of rolled metal, such as steel strip
3. A narrow space in a newspaper in which a story is told in pictures (also strip cartoon)
4. A lightweight uniform, esp one displaying the club colours, for running, football, etc
5. A striptease
6. An airstrip
7. A row of three or more connected stamps
8. A road lined with shops and other business premises (N American)

stripˈogram or strippˈergram noun

A message delivered by a messenger who performs a striptease act for the recipient

strippˈer noun

1. Someone who or something that strips
2. A striptease artist

strippˈings plural noun

The last milk drawn at a milking

strip cartoon see n above.

strip cell noun

A secure room without furnishings or fittings, in eg a psychiatric hospital, in which seriously disturbed patients are confined

strip club noun

One which regularly features striptease artists

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