field-strip
Americanverb (used with object)
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to take apart (a weapon) for cleaning, lubrication, and repair or for inspection.
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to roll up the paper and scatter the tobacco of (a cigarette butt).
Etymology
Origin of field-strip
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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Mort had trained her to field-strip and reassemble the clumsy MM49s back in the days when they'd still had ammo.
From Nature ● Mar. 31, 2015
He fumbled with his iPhone, field-stripped his 3-D glasses, relieving them of their lenses, and occasionally answered a reporter’s questions.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2011
Slowly, the reader comes to know through Ledig's prose, which shows its simple structure like a field-stripped carbine, why this book has been bought in tens of thousands by Germans.
From Time Magazine Archive
He appeared ready to demonstrate when the judge in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal blocked him from field-stripping a red notebook on the witness stand.
From Reuters ● Jun. 13, 2013
This time, he was using the voice he would have employed in chiding a couple of Anatolian peasant partisans who were field-stripping a machine gun the wrong way.
From Hunter Patrol by Piper, H. Beam
Not something like changing the spools on a recorder or field-stripping a pistol; they’re just learned tricks.
From Little Fuzzy by Piper, H. Beam
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