plural strippers
1
: someone or something that strips
paint/varnish strippers
: such as
a
: a person who acts or dances in a seductive provocative manner and gradually removes their clothing piece by piece especially to the accompaniment of music : stripteaser
b
: a machine that separates a desired part of an agricultural crop
2
: an oil well that produces 10 barrels or less per day
Examples of stripper in a Sentence
She worked as a stripper for a few years.
a can of paint stripper
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Even his answering machine sounds bizarre — stripper music overlapping Henry Mancini.
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Tonya Blazio-Licorish, WWD, 20 Dec. 2024
The non-cancelled stripper struts in dressed as a cop (Mike wins this round) and asks which one is Mel.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
De la Torre was one of the leads in Toy Boy, which tells the story of a male stripper wrongly convicted of murder.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
To avoid suspicion at the border, David recruits a makeshift family to pose as tourists: his stripper neighbor Rose (Aniston), a naïve teenager named Kenny (Poulter) and a local runaway named Casey (Roberts).
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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Tonya Blazio-Licorish, WWD, 20 Dec. 2024
The non-cancelled stripper struts in dressed as a cop (Mike wins this round) and asks which one is Mel.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
De la Torre was one of the leads in Toy Boy, which tells the story of a male stripper wrongly convicted of murder.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
To avoid suspicion at the border, David recruits a makeshift family to pose as tourists: his stripper neighbor Rose (Aniston), a naïve teenager named Kenny (Poulter) and a local runaway named Casey (Roberts).
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Stripper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stripper. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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stripper
noun
strip·per
ˈstrip-ər 
: a surgical instrument used for removal of a vein
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