Strip

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A strip is a long narrow piece cut from a sheet material; strip or stripped may refer to:

  • Landing strip, a type of hairstyle
  • Landing strip or runway, where planes land
  • Power strip, a strip of sockets that attaches to the end of a flexible cable and allows multiple devices to be plugged in
  • Strip, the removal of ones clothes
  • Strip steak, one of the highest quality beef steaks on the market
  • Mobius Strip, a surface with only one side and only one boundary component
  • Triangle strip, a series of connected triangles, sharing vertices, allowing for faster rendering for computer graphics
  • strip (Unix), a Unix command which discards symbols from object files
  • Strip or Trim (programming), a programming function to remove white space from the ends of a string
  • strip is an instrument in Finance created from a bond, where the coupons and the principal are sold separately
  • Striptease, the act of removing one's clothes slowly to music
  • Strip search, the removal of a persons clothing to check for contraband

In comics:

  • Comic strip, a drawing or sequence of drawings that tells a story
  • Sunday strip, a newspaper comic strip format, where comic strips are printed in the Sunday newspaper
  • The Strip (comic), a comic strip

In TV and film:

  • Stripping (television), a method of broadcasting consecutive episodes of a television program every day at the same time
  • The Strip (TV series), a television show
  • The Strip (film)

In locations:

  • Agacher Strip War, a 100-mile long strip of land located in northeastern Burkina Faso
  • Aozou Strip, a strip of land in northern Chad which lies along the border with Libya
  • Caprivi Strip, a narrow protrusion of Namibia eastwards about 450km
  • Cherokee Outlet or Cherokee Strip, a sixty-mile wide strip of land south of the Oklahoma-Kansas border
  • Cherokee Strip (Kansas), a disputed strip of land on the southern border of the state
  • Cotai Strip, the trademarked name of Las Vegas Sands' multi-billion casino resort project in Macau
  • Frontier Strip, the six U.S. states from North Dakota south to Texas
  • Gaza Strip, a narrow coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean, in the Middle East
  • Las Vegas Strip, an section of Las Vegas Boulevard South
  • Neutral Strip (Oklahoma), the land that became what is now the Panhandle of Oklahoma
  • Sabine Free State also known as the Neutral Strip, a strip of land between America's Louisiana Purchase and Spanish Texas
  • Sunset Strip, a mile and a half stretch of Sunset Boulevard that passes through West Hollywood, California
  • Tarfaya Strip, a strip of land located at the southernmost tip of Morocco
  • Toledo strip, the cause of the Toledo War

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