Strip or Stripping may refer to:

Places

Aouzou Strip The Aouzou Strip (; ar, قطاع أوزو, Qiṭāʿ Awzū, french: Bande d'Aozou) is a strip of land in northern Chad that lies along the border with Libya, extending south to a depth of about 100 kilometers into Chad's Borkou, Ennedi Ouest, E ...

, 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 The Gaza Strip (;The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p.761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory under the control of the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza.. ...

, narrow strip of land along the Mediterranean, in the Middle East * Las Vegas Strip, 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. It extends from West Hollywood's eastern border with the city of Los Angeles near Marmont Lane to its western border with Beverly H ...

, 1.5-mile stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, US *

Tarfaya Strip Cape Juby (, trans. ''Raʾs Juby'', es, link=no, Cabo Juby) is a cape on the coast of southern Morocco, near the border with Western Sahara, directly east of the Canary Islands. Its surrounding area, including the cities of Tarfaya and Tan- ...

(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) Marvel UK was an imprint of Marvel Comics formed in 1972 to reprint US-produced stories for the British weekly comic market. Marvel UK later produced original material by British creators such as Alan Moore, John Wagner, Dave Gibbons, Steve Di ...

, a comics anthology published by Marvel UK in 1990 *

Comic strip A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st ...

, 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 most western newspapers, almost always in color. Many newspaper readers called this section the Sunday funnies, the funny papers or simply the funnies. The first US newspap ...

, 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" or an "ex ...

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

Strip club A strip club is a venue where strippers provide adult entertainment, predominantly in the form of striptease or other Erotic dancing, erotic or exotic dances. Strip clubs typically adopt a nightclub or Bar (establishment), bar style, and can also ...

, 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 a bachelor party or other private event. M ...

, 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 * "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, 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) In Unix, Plan 9, and Unix-like operating systems, the strip program removes information from executable binary programs and object files that is not essential or required for normal and correct execution, thus potentially resulting in better pe ...

, Unix computer command program *

Stripping (chemistry) Stripping is a physical separation process where one or more components are removed from a liquid stream by a vapor stream. In industrial applications the liquid and vapor streams can have co-current or countercurrent flows. Stripping is usually c ...

, 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 or ...

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

Stripping (printing) Within the commercial printing industry, the job of stripping involves arranging and joining film negatives as part of the process of preparing printing plates. In the UK, the same operation is termed "planning" and film positives are used, rathe ...

, preparation & assembly of printing negatives in pre-press * Paint stripper, a solvent that removes paint *

Triangle strip In computer graphics, a triangle strip is a subset of triangles in a triangle mesh with shared vertices, and is a more memory-efficient method of storing information about the mesh. They are more efficient than un-indexed lists of triangles, bu ...

, 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) 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 p ...

, 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 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 associ ...