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  • noun A person who performs a striptease, a stripper.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music

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Examples

  • In any case, the turgid screen adaptation of "The Time Traveler's Wife" stars Eric Bana as Henry, the accidental stripteaser, and Rachel McAdams as Clare, the long-suffering but patient-as-Penelope title character.

    Not worth the time 2009

  • Coming across this ebay auction made me think about Hedy Jo Star, the famous burlesque costumer and stripteaser who was also one of the first, if not THE first, subjects of sex reassignment surgery, and who operated drag shows on the carnival circuit throughout the 1950s.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Burlesque Daily 2008

  • Coming across this ebay auction made me think about Hedy Jo Star, the famous burlesque costumer and stripteaser who was also one of the first, if not THE first, subjects of sex reassignment surgery, and who operated drag shows on the carnival circuit throughout the 1950s.

    Just a Thought: Hedy Jo Star Burlesque Daily 2008

  • "Have you the faintest idea of the private life of a stripteaser?"

    Chronicle.com - Today's News 2009

  • "Have you the faintest idea about the private thoughts of a stripteaser?" she asked her audience as she came on.

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk Dea Birkett 2009

  • I suggest that you rephrase the lede to say, "The celebrated stripteaser and child actor John Paul Vanne, once said etc ...."

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • I suggest that you rephrase the lede to say, "The celebrated stripteaser and child actor John Paul Vanne, once said etc ...."

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • … It was a woman — I can’t even remember her name — a stripteaser in a night club on the Champs-Elysées, I think, whom Lucia had brought to the house for Palestri …

    Maigret and the Apparition Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1964

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