strips Synonyms & Antonyms

plural of strip

The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.

(of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.

third-person singular simple present indicative of strip

To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

(usually intransitive) To take off clothing.

To perform a striptease.

To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.

To remove cargo from (a container).

To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.

To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.

To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.

To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)

To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).

To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.

To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.

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.

To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.

To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".

To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).