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strips

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English (US)
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strips

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Because it is a word with a single syllable, strips is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

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Definitions ofstrips

1noun
  • The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.

    Example: "She stood up on the table and did a strip."

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

    Example: "strip poker; strip Scrabble"

1verb
  • To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

    Example: "Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair."

  • (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.

    Example: "Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river."

  • To perform a striptease.

    Example: "In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping."

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

    Example: "The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test."

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

    Example: "Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread."

  • 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).

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