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Strip club
Strip club, also called gentlemen's club or sexual entertainment venue: an age-restricted bar where dancers perform striptease. Covers the independent-contractor business model, lap dancing's 1980 origin, zoning, and Washington's 2024 strippers' bill of rights.
Strip Law
Strip Law is a Netflix adult animated courtroom comedy created by Cullen Crawford, premiering February 20, 2026, in which Las Vegas lawyer Lincoln Gumb (Adam Scott) teams with magician Sheila Flambé (Janelle James); canceled after one ten-episode season.
Strip mall
A strip mall, also called a mini mall, is a row of connected shops with customer parking directly before the storefronts and no enclosed walkways between stores.
Strip search phone call scam
Strip search phone call scam: 1994-2004 US hoax calls in which a caller posing as a police officer made fast-food managers strip-search employees; centered on the 2004 Mount Washington, Kentucky McDonald's case and suspect David R. Stewart, who was acquitted.
Strip steak
Strip steak, also called New York strip or Kansas City strip, is a beef steak from the short loin's longissimus dorsi muscle after tenderloin removal; known for firm texture, beefy flavor, moderate marbling, and many regional names.
Strip theory (seakeeping)
Strip theory, also called strip method or slender body theory, is a linear hydrodynamic method for predicting ship motions and wave-induced loads in waves, standard since the 1950s.
Strip-till
Strip-till is a soil preparation method that tills narrow strips where crop rows will be planted, leaving the rest of the soil and residue undisturbed.
Stripchat
Stripchat is a freemium live webcam platform operated by Cyprus-based Technius Ltd, monetized via tips and per-minute private shows. A leading cam site by concurrent models, it was designated an EU VLOP in 2023, lost that status in 2025, and faces DSA proceedings.
Stripe order
Stripe order is an electronic pattern in strongly correlated materials in which doped charges concentrate along domain walls between antiferromagnetic regions, observed only in La-based cuprates.
Stripe, Inc.
Stripe, also known as Stripe.com, is a private financial-infrastructure company founded in 2010 that lets merchants accept cards, bank transfers, wallets, and stablecoins; customers processed $1.9 trillion in 2025.
Striped bark scorpion
Striped bark scorpion (Centruroides vittatus, Say 1821), a Buthidae bark scorpion of the south-central US and northern Mexico; most widespread US scorpion, two dark dorsal stripes, weakly toxic venom, not medically important.
Striped bass
Striped bass (Morone saxatilis, rockfish) is an anadromous Atlantic coast game and commercial fish, overfished but not overfished by fishing per the 2024 ASMFC assessment, with rebuilding targeted by 2029.
Striped hyena
Striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena), a Near Threatened scavenging carnivore from north and east Africa through southwest Asia to India; 25–45 kg, solitary and nocturnal, fewer than 10,000 left.
Striped marsh frog
Striped marsh frog (Limnodynastes peronii), also called brown-striped frog, a large Myobatrachid ground frog of eastern Australia with dark longitudinal back stripes, a repeated 'tok' call, foam-nest eggs, and endangered status in Tasmania.
Striped skunk
Striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis), a North American mephitid carnivore known for its 6-meter musk spray; IUCN Least Concern, stable, ranging southern Canada to northern Mexico, major rabies reservoir.
Stripes (film)
Stripes is a 1981 American military comedy directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray as a cab driver who enlists in the U.S. Army with friend Harold Ramis.
Stripline
Stripline is a planar transmission line in which a conducting strip is embedded between two ground planes inside a dielectric, giving true TEM propagation with little dispersion.
Stripped (Christina Aguilera album)
Stripped (2002) is Christina Aguilera's RCA sophomore album, a 20-track pop, R&B, and rock record with Dirrty, Beautiful, and Fighter; it sold over 12 million copies worldwide, earned five Grammy nominations, and marked her reinvention as Xtina.
Stripped and reallocated Paralympic medals
Stripped and reallocated Paralympic medals are medals vacated for doping or eligibility fraud, including Spain's 2000 basketball team, skier Thomas Oelsner, and discus thrower Vinod Kumar at Tokyo 2020.
Stripped deck
Stripped deck, also called shortened deck: a playing-card pack with low denominations removed, e.g. 36-card Short Deck poker, 32-card skat, 24-card euchre, 48-card pinochle; hand rankings change accordingly.
Stripped Tour de France titles and results
Stripped Tour de France titles are overall victories annulled by governing bodies, most often for doping; Garin (1904), Armstrong (1999–2005), Landis (2006), and Contador (2010) all lost theirs.
Stripped-envelope supernova
A stripped-envelope supernova is a core-collapse supernova of Type IIb, Ib, or Ic whose star lost most or all of its outer hydrogen envelope, often through binary interaction.
Stripper
Stripper (exotic dancer): a performer doing erotic, partly nude dance, aka striptease; history from 1893 Little Egypt and Minsky burlesque to Gypsy Rose Lee, plus club typology, labor organizing, and male stripping research.
Stripperella
Stripperella (Stan Lee's Stripperella) is a 2003-2004 American adult animated superhero comedy created by Stan Lee for Spike TV, voiced by Pamela Anderson as Erotica Jones, a stripper by night and crime-fighting superhero by later night, in one 13-episode season.
Stripping voltammetry
Stripping voltammetry is an electroanalytical technique that preconcentrates dissolved analytes onto a working electrode, then strips them off while measuring current, enabling trace metal detection at parts-per-billion levels.
Striptease
Striptease: an erotic dance of gradual disrobing, coined as a word in the late 1920s and born in American burlesque. Covers Gypsy Rose Lee, the Minsky-era New York scene, neo-burlesque, pole fitness mainstreaming, and UK SEV licensing effects on dancers.
Striptease (film)
Striptease is a 1996 American comedy-drama film directed by Andrew Bergman, based on Carl Hiaasen's 1993 novel, in which Demi Moore's former FBI assistant dances to fund a custody battle.
Strivadi Sahitya
Strivadi Sahitya (स्त्रीवादी साहित्य, "feminist literature") is Hindi and Indian-language writing that presents women as autonomous, thinking persons and critiques patriarchal values, beginning with Tarabai Shinde's 1882 Stri Purush Tulana.
Strive Asset Management
Strive Asset Management is an Ohio-based investment adviser co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy in 2022 that runs ETFs voting against ESG commitments to maximize owner value.
Strive Masiyiwa
Strive Masiyiwa, born 1961, is a Zimbabwean telecommunications entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Econet Wireless after winning a five-year constitutional legal battle against Zimbabwe's telecom monopoly.