striptease
noun
strip·tease
ˈstrip-ˌtēz 
plural stripteases
: an act or dance in which a person gradually removes their clothing piece by piece in a seductive or provocative manner especially to the accompaniment of music
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Beaven remembers Lee disappeared and slipped the cassette into the club sound system, before inviting over several dancers to give the most surreal striptease of their lives.
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Adam Steiner, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2024
Intermittently, elastic-limbed burlesque artists enter to striptease, dance and execute feats of dazzling flexibility.
—Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
The first striptease is a visual mess with a seemingly tidy explanation, while the second looks orderly, but is much messier to consider.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2024
And try to stay awake for the striptease scene at the end.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
Their melding of dance, circus, striptease, contemporary art, fashion, drag, burlesque struck him as a formula that would work in Las Vegas.
—Melinda Sheckells, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
In July 1991, Scot — who had just taken the mic at an all-male striptease dance production on a London stage — was stopped mid-sentence by his business partner, who frantically pulled him offstage.
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
Fortunately, the new eight-episode sequel does not revolve around another striptease for money by unemployed steelworkers.
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
She's introduced via a sultry striptease routine, one that has costars George Clooney, Harvey Keitel and Juliette Lewis looking on from the audience and a moment with Hayek Pinault's foot literally in Tarantino's mouth at one point.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
Adam Steiner, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2024
Intermittently, elastic-limbed burlesque artists enter to striptease, dance and execute feats of dazzling flexibility.
—Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
The first striptease is a visual mess with a seemingly tidy explanation, while the second looks orderly, but is much messier to consider.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2024
And try to stay awake for the striptease scene at the end.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
Their melding of dance, circus, striptease, contemporary art, fashion, drag, burlesque struck him as a formula that would work in Las Vegas.
—Melinda Sheckells, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
In July 1991, Scot — who had just taken the mic at an all-male striptease dance production on a London stage — was stopped mid-sentence by his business partner, who frantically pulled him offstage.
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
Fortunately, the new eight-episode sequel does not revolve around another striptease for money by unemployed steelworkers.
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
She's introduced via a sultry striptease routine, one that has costars George Clooney, Harvey Keitel and Juliette Lewis looking on from the audience and a moment with Hayek Pinault's foot literally in Tarantino's mouth at one point.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
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1931, in the meaning defined above
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