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/stɹɪp/Definitions
A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
Example: The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.
(usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
Example: I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.
A comic strip.
A landing strip.
/stɹɪp/Definitions
The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
Example: She stood up on the table and did a strip.
(of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
Example: strip poker; strip Scrabble
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To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
Example: Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
(usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
Example: Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
To perform a striptease.
Example: In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
Example: The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.