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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish;

2. a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books;
[syn: stripper, stemmer, sprigger]

3. a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music;
[syn: stripper, striptease artist, striptease, stripteaser, exotic dancer, ecdysiast, peeler]

4. an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day;
[syn: stripper well, stripper]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stripper \Strip"per\, n. 1. One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards. [1913 Webster] 2. (Agric.) A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 3. (Agric.) A harvesting machine that strips the seed from the stalks of grain plants. [PJC] 4. a solvent or chemical solution used to remove coatings of paint, varnish, lacquer, etc. prior to refinishing a surface. [PJC] 5. a person (usually a woman) who strips off her clothes as an entertainment performance; one who does a strip-tease; -- also called an ecdysiast, exotic dancer, or strip-teaser. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stripper n 1: a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish 2: a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books [syn: stripper, stemmer, sprigger] 3: a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music [syn: stripper, striptease artist, striptease, stripteaser, exotic dancer, ecdysiast, peeler] 4: an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day [syn: stripper well, stripper]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

60 Moby Thesaurus words for "stripper": analyzer, artist, artiste, bareness, belly dancer, birthday suit, breaker, burlesque queen, centrifuge, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, coryphee, cutter, dancer, dancing girl, decollete, ecdysiast, entertainer, exotic dancer, female impersonator, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, gymnosophist, gymnosophy, hoofer, impersonator, magician, mountebank, mummer, musician, nakedness, naturism, naturist, nautch girl, not a stitch, nudism, nudist, nudity, peeler, performer, prestidigitator, public entertainer, separator, show girl, sieve, singer, state of nature, stripteaser, stripteuse, teaser, the altogether, the nude, the raw, toplessness, vaudevillian, vaudevillist