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Synonyms

starkers

American

[stahr-kerz] / ˈstɑr kərz /

adjective

British Informal.

wearing no clothes; naked.

Etymology

Origin of starkers

First recorded in 1905–10; stark-(naked) + -ers

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The new productions provide an instructive study in contrasts: between dark and light, stark and starkers, funeral and carnival, Southern Gothic tragedy and Age of Enlightenment farce.

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