Usually means: Remove clothing or covering quickly.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. strip: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. strip, strip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. strip, strip: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. strip: Collins English Dictionary
  5. strip: Vocabulary.com
  6. Strip, strip: Wordnik
  7. strip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Strip, The Strip, strip: Wiktionary
  9. strip: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. strip: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. strip: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. strip: Dictionary.com
  13. strip (n.), strip (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. strip: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Strip (Adam Ant album), Strip (Chris Brown song), Strip (Koda Kumi song), Strip (The Chameleons album), Strip (Unix), Strip, The Strip (American TV series), The Strip (Australian TV series), The Strip (NZ TV series), The Strip (New Zealand TV series), The Strip (Scarlet Pleasure song), The Strip (U.S. TV series), The Strip (US TV series), The Strip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Strip: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. strip: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. strip: Rhymezone
  19. strip, strip (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. strip: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. strip: Free Dictionary
  22. strip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. strip: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. STRIP: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Derivatives (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Strip: bizterms.net
  7. Strip: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  8. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Strip: Investopedia
  10. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  11. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
  12. strip: Legal dictionary
  13. strip: Financial dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strip: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. strip: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. STRIP: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. strip: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Strip: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. strip, strip: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Strip: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Strip: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. strip: Coin Collecting
  3. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
noun:  (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
noun:  A comic strip.
noun:  A landing strip.
noun:  A strip steak.
noun:  (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
noun:  (fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
noun:  (UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
noun:  (mining) A trough for washing ore.
noun:  The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
noun:  (television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
noun:  (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
noun:  (slang) A strip club.
verb:  (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
verb:  (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
verb:  (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
verb:  (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
verb:  (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
verb:  (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
verb:  (transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
verb:  (intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
verb:  (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
verb:  (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
verb:  (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
verb:  (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
verb:  To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
verb:  (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
verb:  (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
verb:  (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
verb:  To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
verb:  To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
verb:  To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
verb:  To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
verb:  To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
noun:  The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
noun:  (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
noun:  (informal) Ellipsis of Gaza Strip (“Levant”). [A region in Palestine between Egypt and Israel.]
noun:  (informal) Ellipsis of Las Vegas Strip (“Las Vegas, Nevada, USA”). (Vegas Strip)
noun:  (informal) Ellipsis of Sunset Strip (“Los Angeles, California, USA”).
noun:  (informal) Ellipsis of Strip District (“Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA”).

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