strip English · revision 5718

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /strɪp/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ {{homograph|1|remove, undress}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 1200}}

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+ ==Etymology==

+ To remove the clothes is [[inh|enm|strepen]], strupen, from Old English -strīepan, -strȳpan “to plunder, rob”, as in [[inh|ang|bestrȳpan|t=to plunder]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) from [[gem-pro|*straupijaną]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) which also gave Middle Dutch stropen “to plunder, strip” and German streifen “to strip off”.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To remove someone's clothes: about 1200 in Barnhart, the early 13th century in Etymonline.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ To remove the bark of a tree is from about 1225,^(Barnhart 1988) and to undress oneself from the late 14th century.^(Etymonline) To deprive someone of rank or possessions developed early.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002) To tear the thread of a screw is from 1839, and the teeth of a gear from 1873.^(Etymonline) To perform a striptease is from 1929, American;^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) ''strip poker'' is attested by 1904, ''strip teaser'' from 1930 and ''striptease'' from 1936,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) and ''strip search'' by 1947.^(Etymonline) ''Stripper'' first meant one who strips off bark (1581), a machine for stripping (1835), and a striptease performer from 1930.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1200 – to undress someone.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * c. 1225 – to remove bark.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * late 14th century – to undress oneself.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1839 – to strip a screw.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1904 – ''strip poker''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1929 – to do a striptease.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To take off clothes or a covering; to [[undress]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To take everything out of something, such as a room or an [[engine]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To take away someone's rank, title or property.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To perform a [[striptease]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To damage the thread of a screw or the teeth of a gear.^(Collins 2023)^(Etymonline)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # An act of undressing, or a [[strip-tease|alt=striptease]].^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

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+ {{homograph|2|narrow piece}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=borrowing|attested=1459|origins=gml strippe}}

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The narrow piece is probably [[bor|gml|strippe|t=strap, thong]] or another Low German source,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) related to [[stripe]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986)^(Etymonline) of which MWU takes it to be an alteration.^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A narrow piece of cloth or paper: 1459 in the OED and Barnhart.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A long narrow tract of land or piece of wood is from the 1630s, 1638 in Barnhart in American English.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) A comic strip, a sequence of small drawings telling a story, is from 1920.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) The airstrip is from 1936,^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) a street of clubs and bars from 1939, first Los Angeles' Sunset Strip,^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) and a racetrack from 1941.^(OED 1989) ''To tear a strip off'' someone, to scold them, is from 1940.^(OED 1989) The strip mine (1892) was named from removing soil in parallel strips.^(Etymonline) The distinctive clothing of a sports team is a 20th-century British sense.^(SOED 2002)^(Collins 2023) The verb, to cut into strips, is from 1885.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1459 – a narrow piece of cloth.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1638 – a strip of land.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1892 – a strip mine.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1920 – a comic strip.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1936 – an airstrip.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1939 – a street of clubs and bars.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A long, narrow piece of something: ''a strip of paper''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A long, narrow area of land.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A [[comic strip]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A street lined with shops, bars and clubs.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

+ # ''(British)'' The clothes worn by a [[sports]] team.^(Collins 2023)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[stripe]]

+ * [[stripper]]

+ * [[striptease]]

+ * [[outstrip]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Strip in law, an old term for estrepement (waste done to land), is a different word, from Anglo-Norman estrepe.^(SOED 2002)^(OED 1989) The obsolete strip “to move swiftly, outstrip” is also separate,^(SOED 2002) and in Somerset and Devon dialect a strip is a blow with a switch.^(Wright 1898)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}