strip·tease

(strĭp′tēz′)

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

strip′teas′er n.

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Noun

stripteaser - a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music

ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, striptease, striptease artist, stripper

performer, performing artist - an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience

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References in periodicals archive

Mencken's Greek-derived name for a stripteaser, love to put on fancy airs; others, like humongous and palimony, are winkingly playful.

Confessions of a verbivore

One of them is called, somewhat irreverently, Stripteaser. Perhaps it refers to the skeletal condition in which we are stripped of our flesh by the various items of surgical cutlery (in another room, one finds a glass cabinet displaying several animal skeletons, titled Something Solid Beneath the Surface of Several Things Wise and Wonderful).

Death in the Gallery

Italian American Ann Corio, a stripteaser throughout the 1930s, remembers incidences of state power over sexual representation, and the tricks employed to safeguard illicit shows:

Bumping and grinding on the line: making nudity pay

David is picked up, in succession, by a deaf-mute couple, a former stripteaser, and a man who sells rat poison.

Don DeLillo: 'Americana', 'Mao II', and 'Underworld'

Ian introduces her as 'mysterious eastern Princess La La', a stripteaser who offers up the Dance of the Three Veils followed swiftly by Miss Bubblicious with her 10 pink balloons, bursting one by one to expose even more flesh.

A rubber-clad waitress offered me frilly pants for pounds 30-or gum for 30p; EXCLUSIVE BEVERLEY LYONS mingles with the bizarre clientele of Scotland's naughtiest club, where almost anything goes

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