From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Airairstripair‧strip /ˈeəˌstrɪp $ ˈer-/ noun [countable]TTAa long narrow piece of land that planes can fly from or land onExamples from the Corpusairstrip• At about dusk last Saturday, it was approaching a civilianairstrip in Marana, about 25 milesnorthwest of Tucson.• A collection of firefighting crews moved to a primitiveairstrip, a strip of grass amid the pines.• I flew with her into the bush, to land on a tiny crushed-pumice airstriplaid along a mountainridge.• We visited Meiktila by plane and continued by air to Mandalay, landing on a very roughairstrip.• The first cover story for the airstrip was that a group of businessmen wanted to start up a touristresort there.• We put up a little prefabricated building on the edge of the airstrip.