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on strip
 adj.— «On strip: This describes a prisoner who is ordered to serve time wearing only boxer shorts because he has done something wrong. As in, “They kept me on strip for five days.”» —“What the lingo means” by Adam C. Smith, Jo Becker St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Dec. 30, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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