…a sequence of drawings in boxes that tell an amusing story, typically printed in a newspaper or comic book…
…a strip of territory in Palestine, on the southeastern Mediterranean coast, including the town of Gaza; population 1,551,900 (est. 2009). Administered by Egypt from 1949 and occupied by Israel from 1967, it became a self-governing enclave under the PLO-Israeli accord of 1994 and elected its own legislative council in 1996…
…a shopping mall consisting of stores and restaurants typically in one-story buildings located on a busy main road…
…a form of poker in which a player with a losing hand takes off an item of clothing as a forfeit…
…a strip of material used in testing, especially (in photography) a strip of sensitized material, sections of which are exposed for varying lengths of time to assess its response…
…a narrow corridor of disputed desert land in northern Chad. It forms the border between Chad and Libya. In 1994, Libya agreed to withdraw its troops from the area…
…a narrow strip in Namibia that extends toward Zambia from the northeastern corner of Namibia and reaches the Zambezi River…
…a length of wood tapering to nothing, used in roofing and other construction work…
…a surface with one continuous side formed by joining the ends of a rectangular strip after twisting one end through 180°…
…a piece of publicly owned land between the front boundary of a house or other building and the street, typically planted with grass…
…a series of raised strips across a road or along its edge, changing the noise a vehicle’s tires make on the surface and so warning drivers of speed restrictions or of the edge of the road…
…search (someone) for concealed items, typically drugs or weapons, in a way that involves the removal of all their clothes…
…cultivation in which different crops are sown in alternate strips to prevent soil erosion…
…a temperature-sensitive electrical contact used in some thermostats, consisting of two bands of different metals joined face to face along their lengths. When heated, the metals expand at different rates, causing the strip to bend…
…a series of transparencies in a strip for projection, used especially as a teaching aid…
…the strip of land between the lanes of opposing traffic on a divided highway…
…a form of entertainment in which a performer gradually undresses to music in a way intended to be sexually exciting…
…a strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold…
