stripes

Meanings

• V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
  • "they earned their stripes in Kuwait"
• an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
• a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service
• V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
  • "they earned their stripes in Kuwait"
• a kind or category
• a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
  • "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"
  • "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave"
• mark with stripes
• take away possessions from someone
• get undressed
• remove the surface from
• remove substances from by a percolating liquid
• lay bare
• steal goods; take as spoils
• remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
• strip the cured leaves from
• remove the thread (of screws)
• remove a constituent from a liquid
• take off or remove
• draw the last milk (of cows)
• remove (someone's or one's own) clothes

Synonyms

band, banding, bar, bare, chevron, clean, denudate, denude, deprive, despoil, discase, disinvest, dismantle, disrobe, divest, foray, grade insignia, leach, loot, peel, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, streak, strip, strip down, stripe, uncase, unclothe, undress