HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (figurative) Covered or filled (with something) as if to the point of dripping.
2. (of a liquid) Dripping.
3. (of a surface) Covered (with a liquid) to the point that it drips; having a liquid dripping off it.
4. (slang, US) Intoxicated with alcohol.

Verb

1. To impair or become impaired; to injure.

adj

1. (nautical, of an anchor) Just clear of the ground.
2. (nautical, of sails) Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming.
3. (nautical, of yards) Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across.

noun

1. (colour) A deep shade of sky blue between cyan and azure.

noun

1. plural of carpus

noun

1. (radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) A pulse of signal whose frequency sweeps through a band of frequencies for the duration of the pulse.
2. A short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.

verb

1. (Canada) To speak rapid insulting comical banter back and forth.
2. (intransitive) To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets.
3. (intransitive) To speak in a high-pitched staccato.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To cheer up; to make (someone) happier.
5. (transitive, radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) To modify (a pulse of signal) so that it sweeps through a band of frequencies throughout its duration.

adj

1. (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
2. (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

noun

1. (climbing) A grip on such a hold.
2. (climbing) A small hold with little surface area.
3. (obsolete) A card game.
4. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
5. (specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
6. (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
7. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
8. An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
9. The natural curliness of wool fibres.

verb

1. (climbing) to hold using a crimp
2. (electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
3. (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
4. To bend or mold leather into shape.
5. To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
6. To pinch and hold; to seize.
7. To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
8. To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.

noun

1. plural of crip

adj

1. (computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
2. (dated) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.
3. (obsolete) Curled by the ripple of water.
4. (obsolete) Lively; sparking; effervescing.
5. (of movement, action etc.) Quick and accurate.
6. (of something seen or heard) Sharp, clearly defined.
7. (of talk, text, etc.) Brief and to the point.
8. (of weather, air etc.) Dry and cold.
9. (of wine) having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
10. Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
11. Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.

noun

1. (Britain) A very thin slice of potato that has been deep fried, typically packaged and sold as a snack.
2. (food) Anything baked or fried in thin slices and eaten as a snack.
3. A baked dessert made with fruit and crumb topping

verb

1. (intransitive) To become crisp.
2. (intransitive, dated) To become contorted or tensed (of a part of the body).
3. (intransitive, dated) To become curled.
4. (intransitive, dated) To make a sharp or harsh sound.
5. (intransitive, dated) To undulate or ripple.
6. (transitive) To make crisp.
7. (transitive, dated) To cause to curl or wrinkle (of the leaves or petals of plants, for example); to form into ringlets or tight curls (of hair).
8. (transitive, dated) To cause to undulate irregularly (of water); to cause to ripple.
9. (transitive, dated) To colour (something with highlights); to add small amounts of colour to (something).
10. (transitive, dated) To wrinkle, contort or tense (a part of one's body).
11. (transitive, intransitive, rare) To interweave (of the branches of trees).

noun

1. plural of drip

verb

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of drip

noun

1. (chiefly in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
2. (engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
3. (nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
4. (nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
5. (nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
6. (nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
7. (obsolete) Grasp; clutch; grip.
8. (obsolete) Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
9. (obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
10. A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
11. Alternative form of grype

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To seize or grasp.
2. (intransitive) To suffer griping pains.
3. (intransitive, informal) To complain; to whine.
4. (nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
6. (obsolete, transitive) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
7. (transitive, informal) To annoy or bother.

noun

1. plural of grip

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grip

verb

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of grip

adj

1. Alternative form of gripey

noun

1. (wrestling) A wrestler who uses the hipe technique.

Proper noun

1. A city or region mentioned in the Bible, modern scholars have been unable to determine where it was located. King Solomon is supposed to have received a cargo of gold, silver, sandalwood, precious stones, ivory, apes and peacocks from Ophir, every three years.
2. A ghost town in Alaska.
3. A town in Colorado.
4. A town in Utah.

noun

1. Alternative form of orpine (“the plant or the pigment”)

noun

1. plural of pair

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pair

intj

1. Obsolete form of pardie.

noun

1. (dated) Someone (especially a man) who is considered to be a good choice for marriage, because of wealth, status etc.
2. The basic, central, or main concept, drawing, or scheme of an architectural design.

noun

1. Alternative form of pirai (“piranha fish”)

noun

1. the process, following the cutting of foreskin flesh, by which the flesh is pulled back to expose the glans (head) of the penis. It precedes the circumcision which removes the remnants of flesh

noun

1. (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
2. A situation of serious and immediate danger.
3. Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.

verb

1. (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.

noun

1. plural of peri

noun

1. (informal, microbiology) Ellipsis of petri dish.

noun

1. (medicine, dated) The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.

noun

1. plural of pier

noun

1. (Australia) A bullock living in the wild. (Also used attributively.)
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).
3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken".
4. (US, dated) A male freshman at Cornell University.
5. (military, historical) A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
6. A stingy person; a cheapskate.
7. A tramp; a vagrant.
8. An amateur.
9. One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.

adj

1. (chiefly medicine) Relating to hair.
2. Covered in hair; hairy.

noun

1. One who piles something

noun

1. One who pines (languishes, grieves or mourns).

noun

1. (slang, obsolete) A broken-winded hack horse.
2. A baby pigeon.
3. A bagpiper.
4. A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
5. A musician who plays a pipe.
6. A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
7. Archaic form of pepper.

noun

1. (zoology) Any member of the bird genus Pipra; a manakin.

noun

1. plural of pirn

noun

1. A baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe.

noun

1. (philosophy) A notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the philosophy of language.

noun

1. One who plies.
2. attributive form of pliers

noun

1. A type of unleavened bread from Indian and Pakistan.

noun

1. plural of porion

Proper noun

1. The king of Troy during the Iliad

noun

1. The cost of an action or deed.
2. The cost required to gain possession of something.
3. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.

verb

1. (transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
2. (transitive, colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.

noun

1. (UK, Australia, US, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, slang, derogatory) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
2. (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
3. (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
4. (obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
5. (obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
6. (obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
7. (slang, vulgar) The penis.
8. A feeling of remorse.
9. A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
10. A small pointed object.
11. An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
12. The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
13. The footprint of a hare.

verb

1. (farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
2. (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
3. (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
5. (intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
6. (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
7. (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
8. (obsolete, usually as prick up) to dress or adorn; to prink.
9. (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
10. (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
11. (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
12. (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
13. (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
14. (transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.
15. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
16. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
17. To aim at a point or mark.
18. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.

adj

1. (informal) Alternative spelling of pricey

noun

1. (having a positive sense, often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and scorn for what is beneath or unworthy of oneself; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; rejection of shame
2. (zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
3. (zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.
4. Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”).
5. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.
7. Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female animal.
8. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.
9. Show; ostentation; glory.
10. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
11. The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.

verb

1. (reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of pry

noun

1. A person who pries.

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pry

noun

1. plural of prig

noun

1. (mining) A nugget of virgin metal.
2. (obsolete) a spinning top
3. The brill, a kind of flatfish.
4. The button of metal from an assay.
5. a pellet, a granule, a small bead
6. a rill, a small stream
7. rich copper ore remaining after removal of low-grade material; a droplet of copper suspended in molten slag

verb

1. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To become tipsy.
2. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To grow sour.
3. to flow, spurt
4. to produce pellets by forming a molten substance into droplets which solidify while falling

adj

1. most important

adj

1. (mathematics) Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
2. (mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
3. (mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
4. (obsolete) Lecherous, lewd, lustful.
5. Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
6. First in excellence, quality, or value.
7. First in importance, degree, or rank.
8. First in time, order, or sequence.
9. Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.

noun

1. (Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.
2. (algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
3. (backgammon) Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
4. (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
5. (chemistry, obsolete) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
6. (cycling) An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
7. (fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
8. (film) Contraction of prime lens, a film lens.
9. (historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
10. (music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
11. (now rare) The earliest stage of something.
12. (obsolete) The early morning generally.
13. (obsolete) The priming in a flintlock.
14. An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
15. The chief or best individual or part.
16. The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
17. The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.

verb

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To trim or prune.
2. (intransitive) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
3. (intransitive, of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
4. (mathematics) To mark with a prime mark.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To be renewed.
6. (transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.
7. (transitive) To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
8. To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
9. To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.

adj

1. (colloquial) Best; first-class.

noun

1. (music) The principal part of a duet.

verb

1. (intransitive) To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror.
2. (transitive) To dress in an affected manner.

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of prim

adj

1. (obsolete) in its prime

noun

1. The act of adjusting one's dress or appearance; the act of sprucing oneself up.

verb

1. (UK, university slang, humorous) To pre-drink.
2. (obsolete or dialectal) to give a wink; to wink.
3. To dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up.
4. To look, gaze.
5. To strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious.

adj

1. Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

noun

1. (architecture) A plaster cast in bas relief.
2. (countable) A newspaper.
3. (film) A copy of a film that can be projected.
4. (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
5. (uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
6. (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
7. (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
8. (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
9. A fingerprint.
10. A footprint.
11. A visible impression on a surface.
12. Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.
2. (finance, transitive, intransitive) To produce an observable value.
3. (transitive) To fingerprint (a person).
4. (transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
5. (transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off.
6. (transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
7. (transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
9. (transitive, intransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
10. To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.

noun

1. (molecular biology) A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
2. A petrel of the genus Pachyptila.

adj

1. Advance; previous; coming before.

adv

1. (colloquial) Previously.

noun

1. (US, law enforcement) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's record.
2. (historical) A chief magistrate in Italy.
3. (rationalist community, by extension) A belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
4. (statistics, Bayesian inference) A prior probability distribution, one based on information or belief before additional data is collected.
5. A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot.

noun

1. (obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.
2. Obsolete form of prize.

verb

1. Extract something that is difficult to obtain.
2. To force (open) with a lever; to pry.

noun

1. (geometry) A polyhedron with parallel ends of the same size and shape, the other faces being parallelogram-shaped sides.
2. A crystal in which the faces are parallel to the vertical axis.
3. A transparent block in the shape of a prism (typically with triangular ends), used to split or reflect light.

noun

1. (informal) A prissy person

verb

1. To dress or behave in a prissy manner

adj

1. (now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
2. (now rare, archaic) Secret, hidden, concealed.
3. With knowledge of; party to; let in on.

noun

1. (law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
2. A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
3. A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
4. An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).

adj

1. First-rate; exceptional.
2. Having won a prize; award-winning.

noun

1. (military, nautical) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
2. (obsolete) A contest for a reward; competition.
3. A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
4. An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
5. Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
6. Obsolete form of price.
7. That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
8. That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.

verb

1. (obsolete) To compete in a prizefight.
2. (obsolete) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
3. To consider highly valuable; to esteem.
4. To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.

Proper noun

1. A Jewish festival, celebrated on the 14th day of Adar, commemorating the deliverance of the Persian Jews from a massacre.

noun

1. plural of puri

adj

1. (England, dialectal) Violent, severe.
2. (obsolete, dialectal) Happy.
3. Needing only a brief exposure time. (of a lens, plate, film, etc.)
4. Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)
5. Very swift or quick.

adv

1. (archaic, colloquial) Rapidly.

noun

1. (chess) Short for rapid chess.
2. (dated) A burst of rapid fire.
3. (often in the plural) a rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.

verb

1. To dip again.

verb

1. (transitive) To pin again.

verb

1. (transitive) To fit with a new tip.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of ripe

verb

1. (intransitive) To approach or come to perfection.
2. (intransitive) to grow ripe; to become mature (said of grain, fruit, flowers etc.)
3. (transitive) To cause (something) to mature; to make ripe
4. (transitive) To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection

adj

1. comparative form of ripe: more ripe

noun

1. plural of ripe

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ripe

noun

1. (obsolete, UK, slang) A spur (goad for a horse etc.).

noun

1. (historical) The former currencies of Italian Somaliland and Portuguese India.
2. (pathology) An ulcer due to syphilis.

noun

1. (archaic) Small change.
2. (informal, Britain, US) A medical prescription.
3. A document signifying a power to obtain a specified acreage of public land.
4. A scrap of paper.
5. A share certificate.
6. A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
7. A substitute for legal tender that is produced by a local government or a private organization.
8. A voucher or token coin used in place of legal tender for payment of wages.

noun

1. A concentrated fruit drink; a cordial.
2. A kettle used in making sugar by the open-kettle process.
3. Obsolete form of syrup.

noun

1. Dated form of syrup.

noun

1. (rare) One who spies; a spy.

noun

1. (architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
2. (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
3. (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
4. (now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant.
5. A sharp or tapering point.
6. A spiral.
7. A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
8. Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
9. One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
10. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To breathe.
2. (of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
3. (transitive) To furnish with a spire.
4. To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.

noun

1. (organic chemistry, attributively) A polycyclic compound or system that contains a single atom as the only common member of two rings.
2. (pharmacology, slang) Clipping of spironolactone.

verb

1. Archaic spelling of spurt.

adj

1. Abounding in spires.
2. Like or resembling a spire.
3. Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.

noun

1. (humorous, sometimes mildly derogatory) A youth; a lad.
2. A brad, or nail without a head.
3. A house sparrow.
4. A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
5. A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.
6. An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig.
7. One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace.

verb

1. To decorate with sprigs, or with representations of sprigs, as in embroidery or pottery.

noun

1. (nautical) A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats.
2. A shoot; a sprout.

verb

1. To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.
2. To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.

noun

1. (biology, anthropology) A line descended from a single ancestor.
2. (systematics) A line descending from a single extant ancestor, a lineage descending from a supergenerative species.

noun

1. (UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
2. (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
3. (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
4. (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
5. (fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
6. (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
7. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
8. (television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
9. (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
10. A comic strip.
11. A landing strip.
12. A strip steak.
13. The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
14. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

verb

1. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
2. (intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
3. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
4. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
5. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
6. (transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
7. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
8. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
9. (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
10. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
11. (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
12. (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
13. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
14. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
15. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
16. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
17. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
18. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
19. To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
20. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
21. To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
22. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
23. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

noun

1. Any one of the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus.