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
Recent Examples on the Web
Beyond this, methylene chloride is most widely used as an industrial solvent and paint stripper.
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Sarah Garone, Health, 25 June 2024
Jennifer Marcum was a struggling single mother who worked as a stripper.
—Harold Dow, CBS News, 15 June 2024
Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, and a stunningly great Colman Domingo star in the film version of that tale, the journey of a stripper and her friend to Tampa, where things go wrong in wild and unpredictable ways.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 June 2024
The dangers of the chemical have been well-documented and even led the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban its sale as a paint stripper in 2019.
—Devika Rao, theweek, 21 May 2024
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Sarah Garone, Health, 25 June 2024
Jennifer Marcum was a struggling single mother who worked as a stripper.
—Harold Dow, CBS News, 15 June 2024
Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, and a stunningly great Colman Domingo star in the film version of that tale, the journey of a stripper and her friend to Tampa, where things go wrong in wild and unpredictable ways.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 June 2024
The dangers of the chemical have been well-documented and even led the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban its sale as a paint stripper in 2019.
—Devika Rao, theweek, 21 May 2024
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“Stripper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stripper. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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stripper
noun
strip·per
ˈstrip-ər 
: a surgical instrument used for removal of a vein
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