- lay a strip
- vp To screech your tires pulling out. Heidi just went home; I heard her lay a strip pulling out. 1950s
Historical dictionary of American slang . 2014.
lay a strip
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Lay — (l[=a]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Laid} (l[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Laying}.] [OE. leggen, AS. lecgan, causative, fr. licgan to lie; akin to D. leggen, G. legen, Icel. leggja, Goth. lagjan. See {Lie} to be prostrate.] 1. To cause to lie down, to be… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
lay-by — lay bys N COUNT A lay by is a short strip of road by the side of a main road, where cars can stop for a while. [BRIT] I left my car in a lay by and set off on foot. (in AM, use pull off, turn out) … English dictionary
strip — [n] thin piece of material band, banding, bar, belt, billet, bit, fillet, ingot, layer, ribbon, rod, section, segment, shred, slab, slip, stick, stripe, swathe, tape, tongue; concepts 471,834 Ant. whole strip [v] bare, uncover decorticate, denude … New thesaurus
strip — Synonyms and related words: Mystik tape, Scotch tape, abscind, adhesive tape, airstrip, amputate, annihilate, apron, ban, band, bandage, bandeau, bankrupt, bar, bare, bark, batten, belt, bereave, billet, bleed, bleed white, bob, bolt, boot,… … Moby Thesaurus
strip — [[t]strɪ̱p[/t]] ♦♦♦ strips, stripping, stripped 1) N COUNT: usu N of n A strip of something such as paper, cloth, or food is a long, narrow piece of it. ...a new kind of manufactured wood made by pressing strips of wood together and baking them … English dictionary
lay — I v 1. put, place, set, rest, Inf. stick, leave, park, plant; set down, seat, settle; incline, lean. 2. drop, floor, lay low, prostrate; fell, knock or cut or strike down, sink. 3. lodge, submit, present, prefer, bring forward. 4. repose, impute … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
strip — I. v. a. 1. Tear off, pull off, strip off. 2. Uncover, denude, peel, lay bare. 3. Divest, deprive, bereave, despoil, fleece, shave, make destitute. 4. Unrig, dismantle. 5. Rob, plunder, pillage, spoil, sack, ransack, devastate, desolate, lay… … New dictionary of synonyms
lay off — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abort, aestivate, belay, blueprint, boot, bounce, bound, break, breathe, bump, bust, call a strike, call it quits, can, cancel, cashier, cease, chart, circle in, circumscribe, close down, close shop, cut it… … Moby Thesaurus
strip — I v 1. peel, pare, skin, excoriate, decorticate, excorticate, flay, scale, bark; hull, shell, husk, shuck; uncover, expose, lay open, bare, denude. 2. remove, take off, cast off, throw off, drip; shed, exfoliate, Pathol. desquamate, slough, molt … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
lay bare — verb a) to expose or clarify something And laid those proud roofs bare to summers rain. Byron b) to make bare; strip The central and centralized, imperial governments, guided by the big interests of the country, induced in their unfortunate… … Wiktionary
