Strip Explained

Strip or Stripping may refer to:

Places

• Aouzou Strip, a strip of land following the northern border of Chad that had been claimed and occupied by Libya
• Caprivi Strip, narrow strip of land extending from the Okavango Region of Namibia to the Zambezi River
• Gaza Strip, narrow strip of land along the Mediterranean, in the Middle East
• Las Vegas Strip, section of Las Vegas Boulevard South
• Strip District, Pittsburgh, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Sunset Strip, 1.5-mile stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, US
• Tarfaya Strip (Cape Juby Strip), a strip of land between Morocco and the Western Sahara along the Atlantic ocean
• Toledo strip, formerly contested area between Ohio and Michigan; see Toledo War

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

• Strip (comics), a comics anthology published by Marvel UK in 1990
• Comic strip, a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative
• Sunday strip, a newspaper comic-strip format

Erotic dancing

• Striptease, act of removing one's clothes slowly to music
  • Strip club, a venue that regularly provides adult entertainment, predominantly in the form of striptease or other erotic or exotic dances
  • Stripper, a professional erotic dancer who performs a contemporary form of striptease

Films

• Filmstrip, a form of still image instructional multimedia, once commonly used by educators in primary and secondary schools (K-12)
• Stripping (film), a 2002 Finnish film
• The Strip (1951 film), a 1951 film directed by László Kardos

Music

• Strip (Adam Ant album), 1983 pop rock album
• Strip (The Chameleons album), 2000 post-punk band album
• "Strip" (Chris Brown song), a 2011 song by Chris Brown
• "Strip", a 2018 song by Little Mix featuring Sharaya J from LM5
• "The Strip" (Scarlet Pleasure song), 2014

Television

• The Strip (Australian TV series), a 2008 Australian television drama series
• The Strip (New Zealand TV series), 2002–2003 New Zealand television series
• "The Strip" (The O.C.), a 2004 episode of The O.C. television series
• The Strip (U.S. TV series), 1999–2000 American action drama series
• Strip programming, a practice of running a television series at the same time daily

Aviation

• Airstrip, a kind of airport that consists only of a runway with perhaps fueling equipment
• Landing strip or runway, an area for the landing and takeoff of aircraft

Science and technology

• Strip (Unix), Unix computer command program
• Stripping (chemistry), removal of one or more components from a liquid stream to a vapor stream
• Stripping (fiber), the act of removing the protective polymer coating around optical fiber in preparation for fusion splicing
• Stripping (textiles), color removal process in textiles
• Stripping (printing), preparation & assembly of printing negatives in pre-press
• Paint stripper, a solvent that removes paint
• Triangle strip, method for rendering computer graphics
• Vein stripping, a surgical procedure
• Weatherstripping, the process of sealing openings such as doors, windows, and trunks from the elements; also, the sealant materials used

Other uses

• Strip bond, a financial instrument
• Strip (options), an option trading strategy in finance
• Strip steak, type of beef steak
• Stripping (linguistics), an ellipsis mechanism that elides everything from a clause except one constituent
• Football strip, standard attire worn while playing association football
• Landing strip, or French waxing, a type of bikini waxing

See also

• Test strip (disambiguation)
• The Strip (disambiguation)
• Stripped (disambiguation)
• Strips (disambiguation)
  • • Piece (disambiguation)
• Section (disambiguation)
• Segment (disambiguation)
• Slice (disambiguation)
• Stripe (disambiguation)