strip1
v.
(strips, stripping, stripped)
- remove all coverings or clothes from.
▸take off one's clothes.
- leave bare of accessories or fittings.
▸remove the accessory fittings of or take apart (a machine, motor vehicle, etc.) for inspection or adjustment.
- remove (paint or varnish) from a surface.
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(strip someone of)
deprive someone of (rank, power, or property).
- sell off (the assets of a company) for profit.
- tear the thread or teeth from (a screw, gearwheel, etc.).
- (of a bullet) be fired from a rifled gun without spin owing to a loss of surface.
n.
- an act of undressing, especially in a striptease.
▸
[as modifier]
used for or involving the performance of stripteases.
- Brit. the identifying outfit worn by the members of a sports team while playing.
Etymology
ME: of Gmc origin; sense 2 of the noun is perh. from the notion of clothing to which a player ‘strips’ down.
strip2
n.
- a long, narrow piece of cloth, paper, etc.
▸steel or other metal in the form of narrow flat bars.
- a long, narrow area of land.
▸chiefly N. Amer. a main road lined with shops and other facilities.
Etymology
ME: from or rel. to Mid. Low Ger. strippe ‘strap, thong’, prob. also to stripe.