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Strips

/stɹɪps/

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

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📖 Definitions of "Strips"

noun

1
The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
"She stood up on the table and did a strip."
2
(of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
"strip poker; strip Scrabble"

verb

1
To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
"Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair."
2
(usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
"Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river."
3
To perform a striptease.
"In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping."
4
To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
"The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test."

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Strips"

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Word	Definition
opencast	(chiefly British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed
slipnoun	An act or instance of slipping.
leachnoun	A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
riflenoun	(weaponry) A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.
lootnoun	(slang) Synonym of money.
airstripnoun	An aircraft landing field, usually with one runway and only basic facilities.
landing stripnoun	(aviation) A runway for aircraft, especially one which is auxiliary or temporary.
surfacenoun	The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
uncaseverb	(transitive) To take out of a case or covering; to uncover.
foraynoun	A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.
denudateverb	Stripped bare; naked.
strip downverb	(intransitive) To remove all of one's clothing.
discaseverb	(archaic) To strip; to undress (remove cclothes)
disrobeverb	(intransitive) To undress oneself.
denudeverb	To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.
dismantleverb	(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
unclotheverb	(transitive) To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.
undressnoun	Now more specifically, a state of having few or no clothes on.
ransacknoun	Synonym of ransacking (“an act of ransacking (“searching thoroughly (in order to steal); etc.”) someone or something; an eager search”).
reaveverb	(archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.