Meaning of strip | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
   countable
2. A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area
3. The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
4. Ellipsis of Gaza Strip (“Levant”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
5. A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
   countable, sometimes, uncountable, usually
6. A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively
7. Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
   attributive
8. Ellipsis of Vegas Strip or Las Vegas Strip, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
9. A comic strip.
   countable, uncountable
10. A comic strip
11. Ellipsis of Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
12. A landing strip.
    countable, uncountable
13. A landing strip
14. Ellipsis of Strip District, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
15. A strip steak.
    countable, uncountable
16. A strip steak
17. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
    US, countable, uncountable
18. The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
    countable, uncountable
19. The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
    UK, countable, uncountable
20. A trough for washing ore.
    countable, uncountable
21. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
    countable, uncountable
22. A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
    countable, uncountable
23. An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
    countable, uncountable
24. A strip club.
    countable, slang, uncountable

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Examples

“The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.”

“Papier mache is made from strips of paper.”

“Squeeze a strip of glue along the edge and then press down firmly.”

“I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.”

“At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.”

“First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.”

“You learn, in 'Cleaning Arms,' how rust may cause a 'strip,' and how it must interfere with expansion. I need hardly say, that if the grooves be filled up, the rotation will be lost; or if the grooves be partially filled up, the rotation will be weak,”

“He has fired more than 100 rounds per barrel at a time, from nearly all the barrels converted on this system, without cleaning, and without having a strip, or failure as regards vertical accuracy.”

“What struck me as very marvellous was that in the course of a day's firing, with so many varieties of "part" rifling, there was not a single strip; I expected to have seen some strips, for the ammunition was exceeding bad, independently of the novelty of the "part" system.”

“ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip. The web is using its "Mickey Mouse Club," which is stoutly anchored in the 5-6 p.m. slot, as a backing up point for its afternoon expansion.”

“You be throwing cash in the strip My lil' bitch sucking dick for the free.”

“She stood up on the table and did a strip.”

“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.”

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