Definitions
1.verbTo remove or take away, often in strips or stripes."Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair."
2.verb(usually intransitive) To take off clothing."Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river."
3.verbTo perform a striptease."In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping."
4.verbTo take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest."The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test."
5.verbTo remove cargo from (a container).
6.verbTo remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening."Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread."
7.verbTo fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
8.verbTo remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
9.verbTo remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
10.verbTo empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
11.verbTo milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
12.verbTo press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
13.verbTo 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.
14.verbTo pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
15.verbTo remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
16.verbTo pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
17.verbTo remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
18.verbTo remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
19.verbTo pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
20.verbTo remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
21.adjectiveMade of strips.