stripper

American  

[strip-er] / ˈstrɪp ər /

noun

• strippers
  plural

1. a person who strips.

2. a thing that strips, as an appliance or machine for stripping.

3. Also called ecdysiast, exotic dancer, stripteaser.  a person who performs a striptease.

4. a harvesting machine for stripping the seed heads from the stalks of grain.

5. a machine used in harvesting cotton to strip the bolls from the plants.

6. a chemical solution that removes varnish, paint, wax, etc., from a surface, as of furniture or flooring.

7. any of several rollers covered with card clothing that operate in combination with the worker rollers and the cylinder in the carding of fibers.

8. Printing. a worker who assembles and strips photographic negatives or positives for platemaking.

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stripper British  

/ ˈstrɪpə /

noun

1. a striptease artist

2. a person or thing that strips

3. a device or substance for removing paint, varnish, etc

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• self-stripper
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• strippers
  plural

Etymology

Origin of stripper

First recorded in 1575–85; strip ¹ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

stripper strippers

“If the news had called Cindy a mother instead of a stripper, then people and maybe even the police would be more concerned,” she told the paper.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

It's directed by Baker, and stars Mikey Madison, who is up for best actress for her role as a New York stripper.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025

Delta’s early guests were close friends like Natasha Estrada, a stripper and a mom, and Eddie DeBarr, a Halloween Horror Nights decorator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

Methylene chloride and ethyl acetate are commonly used in paint stripper, nail polish removers and degreaser.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2023

A Swiss Army knife with 13 attachments including a wire stripper and a saw and a toothpick and tweezers 2.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon

"It's the monetary aspect I guess, with things like wallpaper strippers and rotavators, you'll pay a lot of money and probably never use it again."

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025

Joe Kennedy famously said it was time to get out of the market when the shoeshine boy started giving stock tips; Michael Burry was worried about strippers and strawberry pickers with investment properties.

From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2025

There are also prominent labor organization campaigns at Apple, Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, Apple, even strippers at a dance club in Los Angeles.

From Washington Times ● May 23, 2023

Other efforts to improve the working conditions of strippers have made headway in various states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

Each successive draft, therefore, had its choppers, its strippers, its haulers, its "handy men,"—and its water-boys.

From West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon