strip mine in English
noun
1
an open-pit mine.
The governor called the former strip mine site a ‘battlefield unlike others in our nation's history.’
verb
1
obtain (ore or coal) by open-pit mining.
lignite coal is strip-mined at depths of 45 to 100 feet
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1. 13 Physically coding with a hard hat on, in the middle of a strip mine, and my code is moving a 2000 ton machine around –can I get a hell ya?!?