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

The "stripper" is a large stainless steel tank which maximises the amount of contact between the acidic seawater and the air.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 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

To deal with any tenacious paint, use a liquid paint stripper, like CitriStrip.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

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

The performers at Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood, California, are projected to become America’s only unionized strippers after their bosses withdrew their challenges to the union vote Tuesday.

From Washington Times ● May 17, 2023

In August, Actors Equity, a century-old union, announced that it would help the strippers organize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

In fair crops one winnower, with four men to work it, will keep two strippers going.

From Wheat Growing in Australia by Australia. Dept. of External Affairs