strip: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 7 letter points · starts with S · ends with P
Meaning of strip
noun
- countable
A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
Example: The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.
- countable, sometimes, uncountable, usually
A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
Example: Papier mache is made from strips of paper.
- countable, uncountable
A comic strip.
- countable, uncountable
A landing strip.
Listed forms: strips.
Source: Wiktionary — strip.
verb
- transitive
To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
Example: Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
- intransitive, usually
To take off clothing.
Example: Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
- intransitive
To perform a striptease.
Example: In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
- transitive
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.
Listed forms: strips, stripping, stripped.
Source: Wiktionary — strip.
noun
The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
Example: She stood up on the table and did a strip.
- attributive
Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
Example: strip poker; strip Scrabble
Listed forms: strips.
Source: Wiktionary — strip.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for strip.
noun
artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
noun
an airfield without normal airport facilities
- airstrip
- flight strip
- landing strip
noun
a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- comic strip
- cartoon strip
- funnies
noun
a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
- striptease
- strip show
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is strip in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of strip
S(1) + T(1) + R(1) + I(1) + P(3) = 7 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of strip
3 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from strip
24 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in strip. Showing up to 24, longest first.