Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that strips, as one that strips photographic negatives or positives.
- noun A chemical product for removing a surface covering, such as paint or varnish, from furniture or floors.
- noun One who performs a striptease.
- noun An oil well that produces ten barrels or fewer per day.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A card so trimmed that it can be withdrawn from the pack at will.
- noun In dairying, a cow that is about to run dry or cease giving milk.
- noun One who strips, or an implement or machine used for stripping.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, strips
- noun (Agric.) A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping.
- noun (Agric.) A harvesting machine that strips the seed from the stalks of grain plants.
- noun a solvent or chemical solution used to remove coatings of paint, varnish, lacquer, etc. prior to refinishing a surface.
- noun a person (usually a woman) who strips off her clothes as an entertainment performance; one who does a strip-tease; -- also called an
ecdysiast ,exotic dancer , orstrip-teaser .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who removes their
clothing , especially as a form of paidentertainment . - noun A
chemical ortool used to removepaint ,sheathing , etc. from something. - noun A tool used to
strip tubing : toempty it by applyingpressure to the outside of the tubing and moving that pressure along the tubing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
- noun a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
- noun a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish
- noun an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's important that we question ourselves as women, about equality - I think a lot about whether a stripper is an object or is she something to be desired, and whether that's powerful enough.
Spread ArtCulture: Interview: Filmmaker Ruth Hogben Revamps the Fashion Video Spread ArtCulture 2010
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It's important that we question ourselves as women, about equality - I think a lot about whether a stripper is an object or is she something to be desired, and whether that's powerful enough.
Spread ArtCulture: Interview: Filmmaker Ruth Hogben Revamps the Fashion Video Spread ArtCulture 2010
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It's important that we question ourselves as women, about equality - I think a lot about whether a stripper is an object or is she something to be desired, and whether that's powerful enough.
Spread ArtCulture: Interview: Filmmaker Ruth Hogben Revamps the Fashion Video Spread ArtCulture 2010
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It's important that we question ourselves as women, about equality - I think a lot about whether a stripper is an object or is she something to be desired, and whether that's powerful enough.
Spread ArtCulture: Interview: Filmmaker Ruth Hogben Revamps the Fashion Video Spread ArtCulture 2010
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I think the connection between me as a writer and me as a stripper is the impulse to see something weird and different — a desire for new experiences, unusual experiences, needing to see things for myself.
A Conversation with Former Lusty Lady Employee and Author Elisabeth Eaves « PubliCola 2010
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On the other hand, the stripper is the mother of a biracial genius-boy.
SeeLight: 2006
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On the other hand, the stripper is the mother of a biracial genius-boy.
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I used only to be able to get them in stripper shops, but now you can buy them everywhere - although, unfortunately, that means everyone else has discovered the trick too. '
Helen Mirren's Beauty Secrets: Stripper Heels & Sucking It In Katherine Thomson 2010
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I used only to be able to get them in stripper shops, but now you can buy them everywhere - although, unfortunately, that means everyone else has discovered the trick too. '
Helen Mirren's Beauty Secrets: Stripper Heels & Sucking It In Katherine Thomson 2010
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Would a certain whipped-cream wearing stripper from the honorable B. Barr's past be available by any chance?
Former Republican to seek Libertarian presidential nomination 2008
vanishedone commented on the word stripper
See peeler, WeirdNet. Not that there isn't such a thing as paint stripper.
November 28, 2007