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

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Etymology

Origin of stripper

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

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Example Sentences

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stripper strippers

Giving evidence on Thursday, the former stripper denied the allegations and said: "I believe they've been fabricated."

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

“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

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

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2023

They steamed, they scraped, they wet the walls with wallpaper stripper — anything that would help peel the stubborn paper and glue off.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 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 started really with DIY items, wallpaper strippers, ladders, drills, your usual kind of thing. As I got further into my DIY, I started to borrow the mitre saw to do the skirting boards."

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

Star Garden strippers filed a petition for a union election in August seeking to be represented by Actors’ Equity Assn., an established union that represents actors and stage managers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

I have seen it in marked form in the makers of cigars and the strippers of tobacco.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

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