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
Having reached her breaking point, Kimmie slammed her car right into Body, a fellow stripper who spent the entirety of Part 1 making Kimmie’s life a living hell.
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Andy Swift, TVLine, 30 Jan. 2025
Delta’s early guests were close friends like Natasha Estrada, a stripper and a mom, and Eddie DeBarr, a Halloween Horror Nights decorator.
—Candace Hansen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Among the stops on Dreux and Alyssa’s journey are a blood bank where a stripper turned nurse played by Janelle James lets an increasingly gray Dreux donate extra pints and a payday-loan place that touts a 1,900.5 percent APR rate.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2025
The poster said that the bride had one rule: no strippers.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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Andy Swift, TVLine, 30 Jan. 2025
Delta’s early guests were close friends like Natasha Estrada, a stripper and a mom, and Eddie DeBarr, a Halloween Horror Nights decorator.
—Candace Hansen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Among the stops on Dreux and Alyssa’s journey are a blood bank where a stripper turned nurse played by Janelle James lets an increasingly gray Dreux donate extra pints and a payday-loan place that touts a 1,900.5 percent APR rate.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2025
The poster said that the bride had one rule: no strippers.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Stripper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stripper. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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stripper
noun
strip·per
ˈstrip-ər 
: a surgical instrument used for removal of a vein
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