Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also strip) to slash with a cut-throat razor or other edged weapon; thus striping n.

1955		B. Hill Boss of Britain’s Underworld 122: I never striped anyone who was not doing me, or mine, any harm.
1958		F. Norman Bang To Rights 35: As soon as he had stripped the crank down the boat [...] he [...] got out of the chaple before the screws started to look around.
1961		J. Sparks Burglar to the Nobility 121: I’ve seen him [i.e. Billy Hill] reach into his breast-pocket for his chiv and stripe a liberty-takers cheek just as calm and quiet as if he was a chartered accountant ruling a red-ink line.
1998		K. Sampson Awaydays 15: Elvis bounces over and stripes him on top of his scalp.
2004		N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 17: The average punishment for a grass is a severe beating and a striping. Striping is cutting someone across the face. [Ibid.] 281: If you start a fight with a stranger and you get striped, you just chalk it up to experience.

2. in fig. use, to harm (in a non-physical manner), to upset; thus striped adj.

1836		D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 51: He [...] said we was as ignorant as savages. We looked rather striped at this, for every one in our parts hated the savages as we did pison.
1970		G.F. Newman Sir, You Bastard 30: We’ll soon know when we see the people you striped.

3. to defraud.

1974

G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 171: The cab fare the driver was striping him for, brought him up with a jolt. Briefly he considered the driver, debating whether to drag him from his cab and chin him, or settle the fare.