To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes. • To take off clothing. • To perform a striptease. • To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest. • To remove cargo from (a container). • To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening. • To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. • To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling. • To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel. • 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 insulation from a wire/cable. • 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).