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stripper

nouncommon in dialogue

  • //stɹɪpɚ//
  • //stɹɪpə//
  • //ʃkɹɪpə//

Someone who removes their clothing in a sexually provocative manner, especially as a form of paid entertainment.

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who removes their clothing in a sexually provocative manner, especially as a form of paid entertainment.

  2. 2

    A chemical or tool used to remove paint, sheathing, etc. from something.

  3. 3

    A tool used to strip tubing: to empty it by applying pressure to the outside of the tubing and moving that pressure along the tubing.

  4. 4

    A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping.

  5. 5

    A playing card that has been trimmed so that a cheat can recognise it from the back.

  6. 6

    A stripper clip.

  7. 7

    informalA base or entry-level trim level of a car model, lacking amenities or features found in higher trim levels.

  8. 8

    Variant of stripper plateEllipsis of stripper plate.

Etymology

From strip + -er.

Forms

plural
strippers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).