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strip
noun- in a striptease show, the portion of the show in which the dancer removes her last garments US
- In succession as the Flash or entrance; the Parade or march across the stage, in full costume; the Tease or increasing removal of wearing apparel; and the climactic Strip or denuding down to the G-String[.] — Saturday Review of Literature, p. 28, 18 August 1945: “Take ’Em Off!”
- a neighbourhood BAHAMAS
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 197, 1982
- a thoroughfare in a town or city lined with bars, nightclubs, off-licences and restaurants US, 1939
- The whole strip is shrinking. Ah, you know, I remember about five years ago, take yuh a couple of hours and a tank full of gas just to make one circuit. — American Graffiti, 1973
- Tonight, tonight, the strip’s just right / I wanna blow ’em off in my first heat. — Bruce Springsteen, Racing in the Street, 1978
- a Benzedrine-soaked strip of paper from an inhaler, removed from the inhaler and ingested as a central nervous system stimulant US
- Yeah, the strips couldn’t feed Lefty’s hunger. — Thurston Scott, Cure it with Honey, p. 15, 1951
- “You want a strip, Hart?” Ben asked genially as he carefully wadded a piece of benzedrine-soaked paper in a chunk of chewing gum. It was the last of his second inhaler of the weekend, each of which had contained eight strips. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 121, 1952
▶ the Strip- the portion of Sunset Boulevard between Crescent Heights Boulevard and Doheny Drive, Los Angeles, California US
- [H]e emerged, propelling the wheelchair in which he sat, from the darkness of the hospital movie basement with its pitiful representation of the Strip in Hollywood[.] — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 323–324, 31 August 1951
- Also, he had gotten into the habit of falling in love with teen-age girls, like this Chippy on the Strip, for whom he had just bought a new cloth coat. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 3, 1961
- Claiming direct relationship to The Strip are illegal gambling operations, expensive call girls, pushers, pimps, and con men. — Roger Gordon, Hollywood’s Sexual Underground, p. 113, 1966
- [B]eneath my window the Strip (Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California) is filled with noisy cars[.] — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 5, 1968
- [L]ooking down from the eleventh floor balcony at a police ambulance screaming down toward the Whiskey A Go-Go on the Strip, where I used to sit in the afternoon with Lionel and talk with off-duty hookers. — Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream, p. 119, 16 February 1969
- I suppose in this era young girls you pick up hitchhiking on the Strip would not say, “I want to be an actress.” — Mort Sahl, Heartland, p. 59, 1976
- Well, there was this chick–name of Sally–very cute, twenty-three, twenty-four years old, worked as a kind of hat-check cigarette-girl at a small club on the Strip. — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 18, 1981
- Las Vegas Boulevard south of central Las Vegas, Nevada, lined with neon-signed hotels and casinos US
- In the middle of a National District Attorneys’ Confederence at an elegant hotel on the strip. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, p. 80, 1971
- The Strip where most of the super-luxury hotels are has more neon lighting than fabulous Broadway ever dreamed of. — Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas, pp. 67–68, 1977
- — Laurence Urdang, Names and Nicknames of Places and Things, p. 242, 1987
- a section of Yonge Street, between Dundas and Bloor, in central Toronto, Ontario US
A flashy, noisy part of town. - — Laurence Urdang, Names and Nicknames of Places and Things, p. 242, 1987
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