strip

/stɹɪp/

#3,836 of the most-used English words

noun

1. A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
   "The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide."
2. (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
   "I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen."
3. A comic strip.
4. A landing strip.

noun

1. The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
   "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.
   "strip poker; strip Scrabble"

verb

1. To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
   "Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair."
2. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
   "Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river."
3. To perform a striptease.
   "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.
   "The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test."

Similar: deprive, peel, uncover