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Meaning of strips

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

strips

Pronunciation:/stɹɪps/

noun

Definitions

  1. The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.

    Example: She stood up on the table and did a strip.

  2. (of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.

    Example: strip poker; strip Scrabble

verb

Definitions

  1. To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

    Example: Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.

  2. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.

    Example: Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.

  3. To perform a striptease.

    Example: In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.

  4. 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.