Definition of "landing strip" []

• An aircraft runway without airport facilities. Also called airstrip. (noun)

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• "Landing came on a specially marked area on Rogers Dry Lake, a parcel that simulated the 10,000-foot landing strip at Cape Canaveral."
• "On the night of October 19, weeks before the Tora Bora battle, 199 Army Rangers had parachuted in total blackout conditions onto a Taliban-held desert landing strip near Kandahar, which they then secured."
• "Merle Henderson deposited her in his house trailer by the landing strip and kept her there."