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striptease

striptease

16 8.0
A performance where someone slowly takes off their clothes to music to entertain an audience
  • noun
  • /ˈstrɪpˌtiːz/
  • Offensive
translation icon : striptease
  • The audience cheered as she performed a captivating striptease to the music.

So he's met this girl, a striptease dancer who likes to tease her body.

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Examples

  • A standard Vegas striptease is seven minutes long.

  • I'm an exotic dancer, I'm a striptease artist and to me it's an art, so I take pride in it.

  • Want me to do a striptease for you, baby?

  • Now why is the striptease so darn effective?

  • After World War II, striptease was more influenced by the movies.

  • She turned up to do her annual striptease.

  • Some of them fall from grace to nudity, and some climb their way up to the top of the striptease industry.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Austin begins to do a seductive striptease.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • In a lesbian bar in San Francisco, Treut stages a striptease.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Performing an outrageous striptease.

    Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

strip
vsstriptease
  • NSFW
180 7.6

A dance where a person slowly removes clothes to entertain an audience

is more focused on erotic display rather than only entertainment
strip show
vsstriptease
  • Offensive
1 5.7

A performance where a person slowly removes their clothes to music as a sexual display

is described more neutrally and can be simply entertaining as well
nude dancing
vsstriptease
  • Offensive
1 7.9

A dance where the dancer wears little or no clothing to excite an audience

involves a slow act of removing clothes to music as a show

Compounds

striptease artist
  • Offensive
1 7.9

A person who slowly takes off their clothes to entertain people in a sexual way

How Erotic

nude dancing
  • Offensive
1 7.9
striptease
  • Offensive
16 8.0
burlesque
  • NSFW
15 9.3

Surface Forms

striptease singular
stripteases plural

Morphology

striptease = strip + tease (transparent) = strip + tease

A clear compound of 'strip' + 'tease' meaning a performance of stripping intended to tease or arouse.

Etymology

Striptease comes from the two English words strip ('to take off clothes') and tease ('to excite or tempt'). So a striptease is a show where someone slowly removes clothing to 'tease' or entertain the audience.