Clues for the word "STRIP"
We've had 254 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 518 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 27, 2026.
Definition of strip
- v. t. - To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.
- v. t. - To divest of clothing; to uncover.
- v. t. - To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
- v. t. - To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
- v. t. - To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.
- v. t. - To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
- v. t. - To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.
- v. t. - To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.
- v. t. - To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
- v. t. - To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- v. t. - To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- v. t. - To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
- v. i. - To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
- v. i. - To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
- n. - A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
- n. - A trough for washing ore.
- n. - The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
Referring Clues
- Dismantle
- Commercial thoroughfare
- Word with steak or search
- Take off
- Peel
- Do a full monty
- Vegas venue
- Doff duds
- Get out of the habit, maybe
- "Blondie" or "Beetle Bailey"
- Bacon bit
- New York ___
- Take it off, take it all off
- Landing place
- Prepare for a physical exam
- Word with club or mine
- "Blondie" or "Cathy"
- Get naked
- Bacon unit
- Take it all off
- Settle a poker debt?
- Busy retail area
- Narrow runway
- Remove threads
- Pay off a poker debt, perhaps
- Narrow piece of land
- Funny paper feature
- Rural landing place
- Mall modifier
- ___ poker
- Get ready to streak
- Do the full monty
- Type of mall or mine
- Take paint off
- Word with New York or Gaza
- Take off or take it all off
- Get into your birthday suit?
- What exotic dancers do
- Vegas attraction, with "the"
- Steakhouse order
- Work on the bar, perhaps
- Remove accessories from
- Caesars locale, with "the"
- Get undressed
- Take everything off
- Sunset ___
- Get ready to become a 21-Across
- Vegas locale, with "the"
- Bacon piece
- Commercial district
- Piece of Bacon
- Landing area
- Remove, as wallpaper
- Place to land
- Las Vegas area
- Small mall
- Plane landing area
- "77 Sunset ___"
- Don one's birthday suit
- Remove the paint from
- Las Vegas feature
- "Blondie," for one
- Word with "steak" or "search"
- Cartoonist's accomplishment
- Sunset or Gaza
- Comic's venue
- Narrow piece
- Remove, as paint
- Comic unit
- Prepare to streak
- Race place
- Get out of clothing
- Sunset ___
- Comics page offering
- Kind of mall or mine
- Word with mall or mine
- Pay a poker debt, perhaps
- Funny papers unit
- Perform at a club, in a way
- Lay bare
- Club
- Piece of cloth
- Disrobe
- "Peanuts," for one
- Get naked (and a hint to the latter parts of 17-, 26-, 44-, and 56-Across)
- Runway
- Unclothe
- Vegas draw, with "the"
- Remove paint from
- Denude
- Vegas area
- Take it off
- Divest
- Mobius ___
- Undress
- Bare it all
- Kind of search
- Kind of search
- Kind of search
- Lose at poker, perhaps
- "Dilbert," for one
- Remove
- Land to land on
- "Dilbert," as opposed to "Bizarro"
- Reveal all?
- Sunset, in Los Angeles
- Word before poker or after Sunset
- Remove, as paint from walls
- Word after comic or landing
- Follower of Las Vegas or New York
- Narrow piece, as of cloth
- Bacon serving
- "Dilbert" or "Doonesbury"
- ___ mining
- Mine or mall preceder
- Comics section array
- Long narrow region
- Las Vegas attraction
- Remove insulation from
- Airfield
- Comic conclusion
- Las Vegas' main road
- Sunset is a famous one
- With 20-Across, scratched the surface for resources?
- Gambling mecca, with "the"
- Cartoonist's work
- Not a one-panel cartoon
- A kind of mall
- Rand specialty
- Touchdown area
- "Blondie" or "Dilbert"
- Unit of bacon
- Word with "mall" or "mining"
- Row of connected stamps
- Remove sheets from, as a bed
- Remove with a sandblaster, say
- Remove old paint
- Expose
- Long piece
- Comic ___ (newspaper feature)
- Take off sports gear
- Airport runway
- Word before mine or mall
- Reduce to essentials
- Comics unit
- Comic ___ ("Peanuts" or "Dilbert")
- Roger Waters "Sunset ___"
- Serge Gainsbourg "Comic ___"
- Divest - team's garb
- See 19
- Where to land, perhaps, and take off
- Remove a narrow piece
- A revealing take-off?
- Remove a long piece
- Set of football clothes
- Series of cartoon pictures - undress salaciously
- Series of cartoons
- To be both saint and reprobate can seem comic!
- Take off for tricky trips
- Comic feature that's a take-off?
- Take off where it may be possible to land
- Take off for trips, perhaps
- Remove covering from
- A comic 'take-off' act?
- Remove clothes - maybe comic
- Undress (provocatively)
- Collection of panels
- Remove clothes
- Take off clothes
- Clothing relating to singular 14? Remove it
- Band succeeded when on tour
- Clear and concise expression of desire for a good man after death?
- 10 off ribbon
- Runway for take-off?
- See 14
- Site for a touchdown
- Get some exposure?
- Begin to bare all
- Sunset, for one
- Border
- Remove paint
- Place for landing and take-off
- Sack the band
- Football kit angrily torn off
- Small outing to get team kit
- Take off from runway
- Take off from Stansted, initially, on holiday
- See 9
- See 11
- Peel off clothes
- Remove band
- Bare land here
- Take off for wild trips
- Long piece of platitudinous tripe
- See 20 down
- Piece torn off?
- Short cut round T-bar
- Remove one's clothes
- Remove varnish from
- Vegas hot spot, with "the"
- 54-Across appears in one
- High-traffic commercial area
- Funny pages segment
- Steakhouse choice
- Take off a long piece
- If not comic, it may be erotic
- Bacon portion
- Get ready to refinish
- Peel off
- Take off for rambling trips
- Slice of bacon
- Vegas ___
- It's long, pretty thin, but could be comic
- Long narrow piece
- Word after New York or Las Vegas
- Remove all one's clothes
- Feature in the funny pages
- A long piece can still be comic
- Word before steak or after chicken
- Word before "mall" or "steak"
- Doff one’s duds
- Prepare for a physical
- Piece angrily torn off
- Take off for an excursion to the heart of Hampshire
- Teasingly long piece?
- A long exposure?
- An entertaining take-off?
- Rectangular piece of cloth
- Word before mall or poker
- Las Vegas ___
- Feature on a comics page
- A revealing take-off?
- Word with bacon or rumble
- Pore ___ (skincare product)
- Get into one's birthday suit
- Word after "Vegas" or "comic"
- Unit of bacon or cloth
- Lose one's shirt?
- Comic feature that's a take-off?
- Get down to basics
- 29-Down output
- Deprive of threads?
- Funny pages unit
- Remove, as paint from wood
- Bacon slice
- Get nude
- Remove, as old paint
- Game that everyone but one person barely loses?
- A comic 'take-off' act?
- Lose one's shirt, say
- Lose the threads?
- Word before "poker" or after "Mobius"
- Remove paint, as from old wood
- ___ steak
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 27, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 15, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 08, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 31, 2025
- Daily American - December 24, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 17, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 30, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 20, 2025
- New York Times - November 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 04, 2025
- Daily American - November 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 22, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 19, 2025
- LA Times - October 18, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 16, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 03, 2025
- LA Times - July 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 06, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 01, 2025
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