Strip, Strips or Stripping may refer to:

Places

Aouzou Strip The Aouzou Strip (; , ) is a strip of land in northern Chad that lies along the Chad–Libya border, border with Libya, extending south to a depth of about 100 kilometers into Chad's Borkou, Ennedi Ouest, Ennedi Est, and Tibesti regions for an a ...

, a strip of land following the northern border of Chad that had been claimed and occupied by Libya *

Caprivi Strip The Caprivi Strip, also known simply as Caprivi, is a geographic salient protruding from the northeastern corner of Namibia. It is bordered by Botswana to the south and Angola and Zambia to the north. Namibia, Botswana and Zambia meet at a sing ...

, narrow strip of land extending from the Okavango Region of Namibia to the Zambezi River *

Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine. I ...

, narrow strip of land along the Mediterranean, in the Middle East *

Las Vegas Strip The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip, as it is known, is about long, and is immediately south of the Las Vegas city limits ...

, section of Las Vegas Boulevard South *

Strip District, Pittsburgh The Strip District is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a one-half square mile area of land northeast of the central business district bordered to the north by the Allegheny River and to the south by portions of the ...

, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *

Sunset Strip The Sunset Strip is the stretch of Sunset Boulevard that passes through the city of West Hollywood, California, United States. It extends from West Hollywood's eastern border with the city of Los Angeles near Marmont Lane to its western bord ...

, 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 The Toledo War (1835–1836), also known as the Michigan–Ohio War or Ohio–Michigan War, was a boundary dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the adjoining territory of Michigan over what is now known as the Toledo Strip. Control of th ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

* Strip (comics), a comics anthology published by Marvel UK in 1990 *

Comic strip A comic strip is a Comics, sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often Serial (literature), serialized, with text in Speech balloon, balloons and Glossary of comics terminology#Captio ...

, a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative *

Sunday strip The Sunday comics or Sunday strip is the comic strip section carried in some Western newspapers. Compared to weekday comics, Sunday comics tend to be full pages and are in color. Many newspaper readers called this section the Sunday funnies, t ...

, a newspaper comic-strip format

Erotic dancing

Striptease A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner. The person who performs a striptease is commonly known as a "stripper", "exotic d ...

, act of removing one's clothes slowly to music **

Strip club A strip club (also known as a strip joint, striptease bar, peeler bar, gentlemen's club, among others) is a venue where strippers provide adult entertainment, predominantly in the form of striptease and other erotic dances including lap dances. St ...

, a venue that regularly provides adult entertainment, predominantly in the form of striptease or other erotic or exotic dances **

Stripper A stripper or exotic dancer is a person whose occupation involves performing striptease in a public adult entertainment venue such as a strip club. At times, a stripper may be hired to perform at private events. Modern forms of stripping m ...

, a professional erotic dancer who performs a contemporary form of striptease

Films

Filmstrip The filmstrip is a form of still image instructional Media (communication), media, once widely used by educators in primary and secondary schools (K–12) and for corporate presentations (e.g., sales training and new product introductions). ...

, 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 Strip programming or stripping is a technique used for scheduling television and radio programming to ensure consistency and coherency. Television or radio programs of a particular style (such as a television series) are given a regular daily t ...

, a practice of running a television series at the same time daily

Aviation

Airstrip An aerodrome, airfield, or airstrip is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for public or private use. Aerodromes in ...

, a kind of airport that consists only of a runway with perhaps fueling equipment * Landing strip or

runway In aviation, a runway is an elongated, rectangular surface designed for the landing and takeoff of an aircraft. Runways may be a human-made surface (often asphalt concrete, asphalt, concrete, or a mixture of both) or a natural surface (sod, ...

, an area for the landing and takeoff of aircraft

Finance

Strip bond A zero-coupon bond (also discount bond or deep discount bond) is a bond in which the face value is repaid at the time of maturity. Unlike regular bonds, it does not make periodic interest payments or have so-called coupons, hence the term zer ...

, a financial instrument *

Strip (options) In finance, a straddle strategy involves two transactions in options on the same underlying, with opposite positions. One holds long risk, the other short. As a result, it involves the purchase or sale of particular option derivatives that a ...

, an option trading strategy in finance * Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities (STRIPS), a United States Treasury term for the securities obtained when trading the coupons and principal of bonds separately

Science and technology

Strip (Unix) strip is a shell command for removing information from binary executable programs and object files that is not required for execution typically including debugging data, symbol tables, relocation information, and other metadata. The resulti ...

, Unix computer command program * Stripping (chemistry), removal of one or more components from a liquid stream to a vapor stream *

Stripping (fiber) Stripping is the act of removing the protective polymer coating around optical fiber in preparation for fusion splicing. The splicing process begins by preparing both fiber ends for fusion, which requires that all protective coating is removed ...

, the act of removing the protective polymer coating around optical fiber in preparation for fusion splicing *

Stripping (textiles) In textile processing, stripping is a color removal technique employed to partially or completely eliminate Color of clothing, color from Dyeing, dyed textile materials. Textile dyeing industries often face challenges like uneven or flawed dyeing ...

, color removal process in textiles * Stripping (printing), preparation & assembly of printing negatives in pre-press *

Paint stripper Paint stripper or paint remover is a chemical product designed to remove paint, finishes, and coatings, while also cleaning the underlying surface. Chemical paint removers are advantageous because they act on any kind of geometry and they are ch ...

, a solvent that removes paint *

Stanford Research Institute Problem Solver The Stanford Research Institute Problem Solver, known by its acronym STRIPS, is an automated planning, automated planner developed by Richard Fikes and Nils Nilsson (researcher), Nils Nilsson in 1971 at SRI International. The same name was later ...

(STRIPS), an artificial intelligence system for automated planning * Triangle strip, method for rendering computer graphics *

Vein stripping A phlebectomy, or vein stripping, is a surgical procedure done under general or local anaesthetic to aid in the treatment of varicose veins and other manifestations of chronic venous disease. The vein "stripped" (pulled out from under the skin ...

, a surgical procedure *

Weatherstripping Weatherstripping is the process of sealing openings such as doors, windows, and trunks from the waters above. The term can also refer to the materials used to carry out such sealing processes. The goal of weatherstripping is to prevent rain and wa ...

, the process of sealing openings such as doors, windows, and trunks from the elements; also, the sealant materials used

Other uses

* Chicken strips, another name for

chicken fingers Chicken tenders (also known as chicken goujons, tendies, chicken strips, chicken fingers, or chicken fillets) are chicken meat prepared from the pectoralis minor muscles of the bird. These strips of white meat are located on either side of the ...

, a prepared form of chicken meat *

Strip steak The strip steak (also known as sirloin steak in Britain, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, also porterhouse steak in Australia and New Zealand) is a cut of beef steaks from the short loin of a steer. It consists of a muscle that d ...

, type of beef steak *

Stripping (linguistics) Stripping or bare argument ellipsis is an ellipsis mechanism that elides everything from a clause except one constituent. It occurs exclusively in the non-initial conjuncts of coordinate structures. One prominent analysis of stripping sees it as a ...

, an ellipsis mechanism that elides everything from a clause except one constituent *

Football strip In association football, kit (also referred to as a strip or uniform) is the standard equipment and attire worn by players. The sport's rules specify the minimum kit which a player must use, and also prohibit the use of anything that is dangerou ...

, standard attire worn while playing association football * Landing strip, or French waxing, a type of

bikini waxing Bikini waxing is the removal of pubic hair using a special wax, which can be hot or cold, that adheres to hairs and pulls them out when the wax is removed quickly from the skin, usually with a cloth strip. While the practice is mainly associa ...