Meaning of 'strip'

noun

a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music

Example: "I did a strip for my partner, to celebrate their new promotion."

Synonyms: striptease strip show

noun

an airfield without normal airport facilities

Synonyms: airstrip flight strip landing strip

noun

artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

Synonyms: slip

noun

thin piece of wood or metal

noun

a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book

Synonyms: comic strip cartoon strip funnies

noun

a relatively long narrow piece of something

Example: "I cut a strip of cloth from the fabric."

verb

get undressed

Synonyms: peel undress discase uncase unclothe strip down disrobe

verb

to remove someone's or one's own clothes

Example: "They told me to strip before entering the hot tub."

Synonyms: undress divest disinvest

verb

draw the last milk (of cows)

verb

take off or remove

Example: "strip a wall of its wallpaper"

Synonyms: dismantle

verb

remove a constituent from a liquid

verb

remove the thread (of screws)

verb

lay bare

Synonyms: bare denudate denude

verb

remove substances from by a percolating liquid

Synonyms: leach

verb

remove the surface from

Example: "strip wood"

verb

strip the cured leaves from

Example: "strip tobacco"

verb

remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely

Synonyms: clean

verb

take away possessions from someone

Example: "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

Synonyms: deprive

verb

steal goods

Synonyms: foray pillage rifle loot plunder ransack despoil reave