stripper

noun

strip·​per ˈstri-pər 

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

This is why she’s been able to hold the screen with Mullally and that monkey, by the way, the former playing her father Eli’s new romantic interest, Lori, and the latter as BJ’s new service animal after a fall from a stripper pole resulted in a spinal-cord injury. —Brian Grubb, Vulture, 1 May 2025

His pole-dancing polar bear — a legless white beast posed like a defeated stripper — disarms the familiar. —Petala Ironcloud, New York Times, 1 May 2025

Annie isn't your typical grandma — unless your grandma also takes you to see male strippers or fakes heart attacks as a strategy to quash family beef. —Ew Staff, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025

For context, in 2017 Kirk confessed to stepping out on Rashida with a stripper named Jasmine Washington and impregnating her during season 6 of LAHH ATL. —Essence, 24 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for stripper

• chipper
• clipper
• dipper
• flipper
• gripper
• kipper
• nipper
• ripper
• shipper
• skipper
• slipper
• tipper

Medical Definition

stripper

noun

strip·​per ˈstrip-ər 

: a surgical instrument used for removal of a vein