- a long narrow piece of paper, metal, cloth, etc.
- a strip of material
- Cut the meat into strips.
Extra Examples- The wallpaper can then be torn off in strips.
- a card with a magnetic strip on the back
- Cut a strip of paper 12cm wide.
- His hands were tied behind his back with a strip of fabric.
- a narrow strip of leather
- grilled chicken strips
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- long
- narrow
- thin
- …
- steak
- in strips
- strip of
- cut something into strips
- tear something into strips
- a long narrow area of land, sea, etc.
- the Gaza Strip
- a tiny strip of garden
- The islands are separated by a narrow strip of water.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- long
- narrow
- thin
- …
- steak
- in strips
- strip of
- cut something into strips
- tear something into strips
- [usually singular] (British English) (North American English uniform)the uniform that is worn by the members of a sports team when they are playing
- Juventus in their famous black and white strip
- the team’s away strip (= that they use when playing games away from home)
- [usually singular] an act of taking your clothes off, especially in a sexually exciting way and in front of an audience
- to do a strip
- a strip show
Oxford Collocations Dictionarystrip + noun- bar
- club
- joint
- …
- (North American English) a street that has many shops, stores, restaurants, etc. along it
- Sunset Strip
- (North American English) (also comic strip, cartoon)(both British and North American English)(British English also strip cartoon)a series of drawings inside boxes that tell a story and are often published in newspapers
long, narrow piece
of sports team
taking clothes off
street
picture story
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 2 and noun senses 5 to 6 late Middle English: from or related to Middle Low German strippe ‘strap, thong’, probably also to stripe. noun senses 3 to 4 Middle English (as a verb): of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stropen. Sense (3) of the noun arose in the late 20th cent., possibly from the notion of clothing to which a player “strips” down.
Idioms
See strip in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee strip in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishtear somebody off a strip | tear a strip off somebody
- (British English, informal) to speak angrily to somebody who has done something wrong
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