The act of stubbing out a cigarette and knocking out all the loose tobacco and embers so you can safely dispose of the butt in a trash receptacle when one presents itself.
Todd: "Can I just flick this butt in their yard?"

Me: "No, field strip it and put it in your pocket until we go inside. Why are you such a rube?"
by big_perm5000 September 13, 2011
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The act of searching through an ashtray to use the remaining tobacco out of used and dead cigarette butts to hand roll a new cigarette.
"I don't have any money for a pack of smokes, so I am about to field strip this ashtray and roll one."
by caveman1251986 September 12, 2011
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