stripper
12 synonyms for stripper, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A person who takes off their clothes to music as a paid performance, usually in a club or at a private party.
Synonyms
Less common
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Rare, literary or technical
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Synonyms by Meaning
1. noun
A person who takes off their clothes to music as a paid performance, usually in a club or at a private party.
“She worked as a stripper for two years to pay her way through law school.”
2. noun
A chemical product or tool used to remove a coating such as paint, varnish or wallpaper from a surface.
“Brush the paint stripper on thickly and leave it for twenty minutes.”
How to use stripper
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
The performer sense is neutral-to-blunt; the chemical sense is entirely ordinary.
Etymology
From the verb strip "to remove a covering" plus the agent suffix -er.
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