stripper
stri per
- n a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish
- n a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
- n a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
- n an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day
- But no one questioned this year when he cast Jessica Alba, whose dad is Mexican American, as an Irish stripper in his film-noirish interpretation of the cult comic Sin City.
- Most often it is employed to generate vertigo, as when a trapeze artist dangles above a crowd, or when two men have a highball-to-highball confrontation with a swiveling stripper.
- The spectacle of one of the House's most revered elder statesmen cavorting onstage with a stripper sent shock waves through Congress, most especially members of Mills' own party.