Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A performance, as in a burlesque act, in which a person slowly removes clothing, usually to musical accompaniment.

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  • noun The act of slowly taking off one's clothes to sexually arouse the viewer, often accompanied by music and in exchange for money.
  • verb To perform a striptease.

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

  • noun a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
  • noun a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music

Etymologies

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From strip +‎ tease.

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Examples

  • Yet if nothing else, her predictably ludicrous but unexpectedly endearing determination to play schoolmarm during her celebrity striptease is enough to settle any remaining doubts about the validity of this woman's U.S. passport.

    Calamity Jane 2005

  • Yet if nothing else, her predictably ludicrous but unexpectedly endearing determination to play schoolmarm during her celebrity striptease is enough to settle any remaining doubts about the validity of this woman's U.S. passport.

    Calamity Jane 2005

  • Baby girl has definitely re-invented the word striptease with these pics.

    Bossip.com 2009

  • Baby girl has definitely re-invented the word striptease with these pics.

    Bossip.com 2009

  • During his "striptease" - as Parizeau called the progressive unveiling of his policies - the former PQ finance minister has promoted Quebec sovereignty, a crackdown on minority language rights and a toughening of language laws, free trade with the United States, government-owned industry, and a minimum-income scheme.

    From the files: Parizeau, pure laine and doing it like bunnies Ed Hollett 2007

  • One of the first numbers I saw her do as a striptease was her tribute to Blaze Starr.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Burlesque Daily 2008

  • One of the first numbers I saw her do as a striptease was her tribute to Blaze Starr.

    Angie Pontani's Tribute to Blaze Starr Burlesque Daily 2008

  • Norway protects the venerable art form known as the striptease:

    Victory In The War Against High Taxes 2006

  • The narrative strategy is now clear: it enacts a kind of striptease in which fiction succeeds fiction, revelation following revelation, each promising a greater pleasure to follow.

    How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision 2006

  • Michael Ontkean performs the funniest "striptease" bit in the history of film, and the endearingly sociopathic “Hansen Brothers” have to be seen to be believed.

    Hullabaloo 2008

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