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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : strip
Phonetic Transcription : strɪp



Definition of strip

Origin :
  • "make bare," Old English -striepan, -strypan "plunder, despoil," as in West Saxon bestrypan "to plunder," from Proto-Germanic *straupijanan (cf. Middle Dutch stropen "to strip off, to ramble about plundering," Old High German stroufen "to strip off, plunder," German streifen "strip off, touch upon, to ramble, roam, rove"). Meaning "to unclothe" is recorded from early 13c. Of screw threads, from 1839; of gear wheels, from 1873. Related: Stripped; stripping. Strip poker is attested from 1916, in a joke in "The Technology Monthly and Harvard Engineering Journal":
  • "Say, Bill how, did the game come out?""It ended in a tie.""Oh, were you playing strip poker?"
  • strip search is from 1947, in reference to World War II prison camps.
  • noun thin piece of material
  • verb bare, uncover
  • verb remove clothes erotically
Example sentences :
  • Wrap in a strip of gauze or cheesecloth and place in a steamer.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • Take the flowers or blossoms of the elder tree, and strip them from the stalks.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • "You shall not be at any disadvantage," he said, and began to strip with all possible speed.
  • Extract from : « Casanova's Homecoming » by Arthur Schnitzler
  • If ever an understanding should be arrived at, it must be based on the gift of a strip of territory.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • Those you cannot strip off easily with your hands are too tough for your purpose.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • It slipped, and cut my foot, and I bound the wound with a strip from my pocket-handkerchief.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • Nevertheless, access to the village was possible by the strip of rocks beneath it.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • He commenced to strip off his clothes, and to fold them along the floor of the grave.
  • Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson
  • So he bought the strip nigher this way and moved the old house over.
  • Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • It was a strip along the shore, almost worthless, and unsalable at present.
  • Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln

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