STRIP


Meaning of STRIP in English

I.

noun

1 long, narrow piece

ADJECTIVE

▪ long

▪ narrow , thin , tiny

▪ thick , wide

Cut the meat into thick ~s.

▪ plastic

▪ magnetic

a card with a magnetic ~ on the back

▪ chicken ( esp. AmE )

grilled chicken ~s

▪ test

The kit contains five test ~s.

▪ rumble ( BrE )

The road has speed bumps, crash barriers and rumble ~s.

▪ coastal

▪ landing

This aircraft requires a good-sized landing ~.

STRIP + NOUN

▪ steak ( AmE )

PREPOSITION

▪ in ~s

The wallpaper can then be torn off in ~s.

▪ ~ of

a narrow ~ of leather

PHRASES

▪ cut sth into ~s , tear sth into ~s

2 taking clothes off

STRIP + NOUN

▪ bar , club , joint ( esp. AmE )

▪ show

▪ poker

▪ search

II.

verb

1 take off your/sb's clothes

PREPOSITION

▪ off

We stripped off and went for a swim.

▪ (down) to

Office workers stripped down to their shirtsleeves in the heatwave.

PHRASES

▪ ~ (sb) naked

He was stripped naked and left alone in a cell.

▪ ~ to the waist

He stripped to the waist and began to dig.

2 take sth away

ADVERB

▪ completely

▪ away , off , out

Strip out any damaged wiring.

PREPOSITION

▪ from

The bark is stripped from the trees by hand.

▪ of

The president had been completely stripped of power.

▪ off

We stripped all the paint off the walls.

PHRASES

▪ ~ sth bare

The room had been stripped bare by the thieves.

Strip is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ bark , ↑ bed , ↑ flesh , ↑ paint , ↑ varnish , ↑ veneer , ↑ wallpaper

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .