strip off

Definitions

1. 1

   To remove anything by stripping, e.g. items of clothing or paint from the side of a ship.

   • 1713, Alexander Pope translation of Homer Odyssey read at Project Gutenberg Strip off thy garments; Neptune's fury brave / With naked strength, and plunge into the wave.
   • We cut down pine trees and then had to strip off all the bark.
2. 2

   To remove all of one's clothes (or sometimes to remove all except underclothes, or…

   To remove all of one's clothes (or sometimes to remove all except underclothes, or figuratively).

   • Your trees of Pine Hill, which persevere in being green the year round, do not please so much as those which strip off in November,and put on their green and flowery robes in April.
   • A night when you strip off and sit down to gasp and pant for a breath of air; such a night is never experienced in Kansas.
   • I cannot remember whose idea it was that we should strip off to our underclothing and go into the coolness of the stream.
3. 3

   To be removed by stripping.

   • The feathers strip off much more easily and cleanly while the bird is yet warm.
   • On an old plant, this tends to strip off in long, tough, stringy lumps, a bit like short lengths of raffia.

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