strip
strip
- n a relatively long narrow piece of something
he felt a flat strip of muscle - n artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- n an airfield without normal airport facilities
- n a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- n thin piece of wood or metal
- n a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
she did a strip right in front of everyone - v take away possessions from someone
The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets - v get undressed
She strips in front of strangers every night for a living - v remove the surface from
strip wood - v remove substances from by a percolating liquid
- v lay bare
- v steal goods; take as spoils
- v remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- v strip the cured leaves from
strip tobacco - v remove the thread (of screws)
- v remove a constituent from a liquid
- v take off or remove
strip a wall of its wallpaper - v draw the last milk (of cows)
- v remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
- Year ago Artist Soglow sold Publisher Hearst a comic strip called The Ambassador.
- As Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould well knows from the strip-within-a-strip Fearless Fosdick, Capp is not even (gasp!) a respecter of funny-paper characters.
- Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner walks a dangerous rope: it often picks its topics out of the headlines, and sometimes finds its humor in the neighborhood of the outhouse.