Wiktionary
a. Reduced to essentials; without additional features. alt. Reduced to essentials; without additional features.
WordNet
adj. having only essential or minimal features; "a stripped new car"; "a stripped-down budget" [syn: stripped]
Usage examples of "stripped-down".
It was a stripped-down Kawasaki three cylinder two-stroke, easy to handle and loud as hell.
He whirled once, swiftly, panic causing his heart to race, for there in the closeness of the engineering spaces his fully alerted senses had given him a false signal of movement where there was only vacuum, and space-discolored bulkheads and stripped-down machinery.
It was basic, stripped-down stuff of a simplicity which made it duck soup for Lex.
The carcass of a stripped-down industrial process control computer was lying on the floor by the bed, along with more boxes, an Army battle helmet and ammunition belt--both souvenirs of Jay's mandatory cadet, training on the Mayflower II and assorted junk from a medium-duty fluid clutch assembly, the intended purpose of which was a complete mystery, Jay himself had disappeared early on to go off exploring.
Beneath the mummified hovering of the two Martians, the rest of the company were sitting around the stripped-down buoy on inflatable loungers, picking without much enthusiasm at the remains of tab-pull field ration pans.
They are engineered and pushed forward at Howard’s famous driving pace by a gritty directness and stripped-down, take-no-prisoners attitude that is unique to Howard.