September 10, 2010, 13:32
<Proofreader>Is it OK?
If women undress in a
strip joint or a
strip club, can they also become nude in a
strip mall? What about in a
strip mine?
If you eat a stripper, is that
strip steak?
Are there naked Indians on the
Cherokee Strip?
Is a
stripling a young exotic dancer?
How funny must a woman be to make it a
comic strip?
September 10, 2010, 19:33
KallehI know you were being funny, but I'll be serious for a moment. When I looked up "strip" in the OED, it has 8 different citings, 4 for verbs and 4 for nouns. Of course many of the categories had dozens of sub-categories, such as "strip mall."
I hadn't realized how many meanings it has:
Verbs1. To unclothe, denude
2. To move or pass swiftly
3. To extract (the milk from a cow's udder). Now spec. to extract the milk remaining in the udder after the normal milking, esp. by a particular movement of the hand
4. To cut into strips. Hence stripping
Nouns1. ESTREPEMENT (U.S. law)
2. A narrow piece (primarily of textile material, paper, or the like; hence gen.) of approximately uniform breadth. pilaster strip (Arch.)
3. Tobacco-leaf with the stalk and midrib removed. Also strip-leaf.
4. STRIPE In some dialects of Scotland the form stripe in this sense is unknown in genuine vernacular speech; ‘strips’ is the only word, e.g. for the stripes of a tiger or a zebra.
September 10, 2010, 19:46
<Proofreader>This is no joke. I was at one time a stripper.
OK, it was an offset stripper (not a deformed nude), which is a term used in lithographic press preparation. But that's one def they left out.