Strip Mining

Word STRIP MINING
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Definitions and meanings of "Strip Mining"

What do we mean by strip mining?

To mine by creating a strip mine, usually for coal or tar sands.

When serving yourself food, picking out the best parts for yourself and leaving the less desirable parts for others. Urban Dictionary

Verb To dig out or take all the "good parts" of certain foods, like the marshmallows in Lucky Charms cereal, the candy pieces in the Moose Tracks ice cream, or the feta cheese out of a Greek salad. Urban Dictionary

Archaic term for surface mine. Urban Dictionary

Exhaustive, erosive excavation of a joke. Urban Dictionary

The act of anal sex with a girl without a condom. Urban Dictionary

When you take all the toppings and cheese of a pizza leaving only tomato sauce and dough. Do not strip mine half a pizza like Ken. Urban Dictionary

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The word "strip-mining" in example sentences

Not so much for the telescope itself, but to avoid strip-mining all the other research sponsored by this agency. ❋ Seth Shostak (2011)

Every reader can simply go to this website and enter his or her zip code and see their connection to coal-fired electricity supplied by coal strip-mined from mountaintop removal or other strip-mining operations. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2011)

Fed up with the regulatory crisis and circumventions by outside coal companies, coalfield residents have been rising up against reckless strip-mining practices against the country, from Alaska to Alabama to Arizona. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2010)

Since its relocation, ConAgra has begun full-scale strip-mining of Western Montana's MSG deposits. ❋ Tony Phillips (2011)

Look at manufacturing: Once the biggest US manufacturer was US Steel, consuming many million tons of coal and ore and iron each year, strip-mining the land. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the 1970s I was quite fortunate to stumble into Antioch/Appalachia, where I met fellow poets dealing with the issues of stereotyping and strip-mining. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2011)

Across the heartland and the Powder River Basin, from Alaska to Alabama, strip-mining operations are at work in 24 states and Native American reservations. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2011)

Meanwhile, protesters led by the legendary Rev. Billy Talen staged a nearby sit-in at the office of the PNC bank, which remains one of the last major financiers of coal companies engaged in this extreme form of strip-mining in Appalachia. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2010)

After organizing a rigorous 10-year campaign to abolish strip-mining, outraged by this duplicitous compromise to grant federal sanctioning of mountaintop removal mining, the Appalachian Coalition of coalfield residents and environmental groups called the SMCRA a "blatant travesty" and a "betrayal." ❋ Jeff Biggers (2011)

In 1977, after a huge flood aggravated by strip-mining and clear-cutting, I co-edited a small anthology called Mucked that collected regional writers concerned with environmental issues. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2011)

It's good that strip-mining, tar sands, hydro-fracking, oil spilling -- this flood of nightmares is scaring us silly. ❋ Reverend Billy (2010)

Amid mind-boggling strip-mining destruction in Wise County, Virginia, Dominion Resources is building a new coal-fired plant as a monument to yesterday. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2010)

[Quit] Strip Mining, you're [taking] all of [the cheese]! ❋ BDItillIdie (2010)

"[Damn it]! My [roommate] strip-mined the [Lucky Charms] again!. I'm gonna kill him." ❋ Nseaturtle (2013)

Let's go driving in [the old] strip mine, with [your dad's] [Porsche Cayenne]. ❋ Hazletard-in-Chief (2011)

"[get it]?! get it?!" "[oh yeah]...you can stop comic strip-mining that [joke]" ❋ Blatherskyte (2013)

Although [rugged] and dangerous nothing compares to the [raw] feeling of [strip mining] a girl. ❋ Stealth Penguin (2011)

Ex1: Ken was [being an ass] hole and strip mined the pizza. Ex2: Guy1: Dude, did you [strip mine] my pizza? Ken: What you gonna dough about it? Reporter: Ken was killed today at a local [collage]. ❋ Hellathere (2015)

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