name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
Strub
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CMU ARPABET: S T R AH1 B Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To rob, plunder; clear out completely; to strip.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, ambitransitive, dialectal
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History
Etymology
Origin obscure. Perhaps from Middle English strupen, a variant of strepen (“to strip, rob, plunder”), from Old English *strȳpan (attested in Old English bestrȳpan (“to strip, rob, spoil, bereave”), whence English bestrip). More at strip.