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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The movie follows a 23-year-old stripper named Ani (Madison) who elopes with the son of a rich Russian family named Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn) after meeting him at her club.
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Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 3 Mar. 2025
Moving from romantic comedy to crime thriller and other wild tonal territories, the low-budget indie follows Ani (Madison), a New York stripper who elopes with the son of an uber rich Russian oligarch (Mark Eydelshteyn) and enters a world of trouble.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Mar. 2025
The Arabian Knight has a flying carpet and a turban, as if a stripper service sent you Beefcake Prince of Persia.
—Darren Franich, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
In the wild days of the late 1980s and 1990s, Brantley says, bars along Bourbon Street would pay strippers to show off their goods on the long gallery balconies lining the road, and host ceremonial light pole-greasings to stop revelers climbing them.
—Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2025
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Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 3 Mar. 2025
Moving from romantic comedy to crime thriller and other wild tonal territories, the low-budget indie follows Ani (Madison), a New York stripper who elopes with the son of an uber rich Russian oligarch (Mark Eydelshteyn) and enters a world of trouble.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Mar. 2025
The Arabian Knight has a flying carpet and a turban, as if a stripper service sent you Beefcake Prince of Persia.
—Darren Franich, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
In the wild days of the late 1980s and 1990s, Brantley says, bars along Bourbon Street would pay strippers to show off their goods on the long gallery balconies lining the road, and host ceremonial light pole-greasings to stop revelers climbing them.
—Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 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 12 Mar. 2025.
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stripper
noun
strip·per
ˈstrip-ər 
: a surgical instrument used for removal of a vein
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