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Added 9 October 2026

strip

/ˈstɹɪp/ noun

In Latin: nudo Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about strip at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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.
A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
Papier mache is made from strips of paper.
A comic strip.

verb

To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
To take off clothing.
Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
To perform a striptease.
In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.

noun

The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
She stood up on the table and did a strip.
Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
strip poker; strip Scrabble

Origin

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).

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