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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Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
The Gerber Gear multi tool has 17 tools in one and includes needle nose pliers, standard pliers, wire cutters, a mini saw, a wire stripper and much more.
—Christopher Murray
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Powered by a mellow-yet rhythmic Afrobeats tune, the cheeky track finds Miko lusting over a stripper in this seductive narrative that captures an undeniable connection between the two.
—Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
And of course, from a more skeptical perspective, the whole project could be described as cleaving close to the wisdom of the strippers in Gypsy.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for stripper
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“Stripper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stripper. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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stripper
noun
strip·per
ˈstrip-ər 
: a surgical instrument used for removal of a vein
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