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Did A Burlesque Routine Crossword Clue

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RankLettersAnswerClue
199%8Exact Match!
233%8Burlesque routine with sensual movements
330%9Did not get going when everyone else did

About This Clues Answer

We think the answer is "STRIPPED" which means:

    adjective satellite
  • • Having only essential or minimal features
  • • Having everything extraneous removed including contents
  • • With clothing stripped off
  • verb
  • • To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
  • • (usually intransitive) to take off clothing.
  • • To perform a striptease.
  • • To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
  • • To remove cargo from (a container).
  • • To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
  • • To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
  • • To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
  • • To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (see also strip-squeeze.)
  • • To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
  • • To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
  • • To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
  • • To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on mondays to fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
  • • To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
  • • To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
  • • To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
  • • To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
  • • To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
  • • To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
  • • To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
  • adjective
  • • Made of strips.

An example sentence would be:

  • • "The stripped walls revealed the old layers of paint underneath."
  • • "The stripped wood gave the furniture a rustic look."

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New York Times12 Apr 1976 Down 36
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