strip

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strip1

▶verb (strips, stripping, stripped)

• 1 remove all coverings or clothes from.

  ■ take off one's clothes.

• 2 leave bare of accessories or fittings.

  ■ remove the accessory fittings of or take apart (a machine, motor vehicle, etc.) for inspection or adjustment.

• 3 remove (paint or varnish) from a surface.

• 4 (strip someone of) deprive someone of (rank, power, or property).

• 5 sell off (the assets of a company) for profit.

• 6 tear the thread or teeth from (a screw, gearwheel, etc.).

• 7 (of a bullet) be fired from a rifled gun without spin owing to a loss of surface.

▶noun

• 1 an act of undressing, especially in a striptease.

  ■ [as modifier] used for or involving the performance of stripteases.

• 2 Brit. the identifying outfit worn by the members of a sports team while playing.

– origin ME: of Gmc origin; sense 2 of the noun is perh. from the notion of clothing to which a player ‘strips’ down.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strip2

▶noun

• 1 a long, narrow piece of cloth, paper, etc.

  ■ steel or other metal in the form of narrow flat bars.

• 2 a long, narrow area of land.

  ■ chiefly N. Amer. a main road lined with shops and other facilities.

– origin ME: from or rel. to Mid. Low Ger. strippe ‘strap, thong’, prob. also to stripe.