1. strip - Noun
2. strip - Verb
3. Strip - Proper noun
To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.
To divest of clothing; to uncover.
To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.
To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.
To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.
To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
A trough for washing ore.
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
Source: Webster's dictionaryStrip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath. Oscar Levant
ROAD, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go. Ambrose Bierce
The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day. Peter Greenaway
One cannot strip two hides from one fox. Hungarian Proverb
Precaution said, Good friend, this counsel keep: strip not yourself until you're laid to sleep. Dutch Proverb
To despise the ox means to despise also a strip of hide from it. Bajan Proverb