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striptease

US/ˈstɹɪpˌtiz/

striptease noun: the act of slowly taking off one's clothes to sexually arouse the viewer, often accompanied by music and in exchange for money.

Noun

striptease (countable and uncountable, plural stripteases)

  1. The act of slowly taking off one's clothes to sexually arouse the viewer, often accompanied by music and in exchange for money.

Verb

striptease (third-person singular simple present stripteases, present participle stripteasing, simple past and past participle stripteased)

  1. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.

striptease meaning in Hindi, Malayalam, Arabic and Malay

striptease in Hindi

arousing act
स्ट्रिपटीज़ sṭripṭīz

striptease in Malayalam

വസ്ത്രം ഉരിയൽ നൃത്തം

striptease in Arabic

arousing act
رَقْص تَعَرِيّ raqṣ taʕariyy, اِسْتْرِبْتِيز istribtīz

striptease in Malay

arousing act
tarian bogel
More languagesFewer languages
striptease in Persian
استریپتیز estirip-tiz
striptease in Thai
ระบำเปลื้องผ้า rá-bam bplêuang-pâa
striptease in Vietnamese
điệu múa thoát y, thoát y vũ

Synonyms of striptease

Forms of striptease

Noun
pluralstripteases
Verb
third-person singular presentstripteases
present participlestripteasing
past participlestripteased
paststripteased

Plural of striptease: stripteases

Origin of striptease

From strip + tease.

Words formed from striptease

Phrases with striptease

Questions about striptease

What does striptease mean?
Striptease means the act of slowly taking off one's clothes to sexually arouse the viewer, often accompanied by music and in exchange for money.
What is striptease in Hindi?
Striptease in Hindi is स्ट्रिपटीज़ (sṭripṭīz). See Striptease meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is striptease?
Striptease can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce striptease?
Striptease is pronounced /ˈstɹɪpˌtiz/ (US).
What is the plural of striptease?
The plural of striptease is stripteases.

Words near striptease in the dictionary

  1. strips down
  2. strips off
  3. strips out
  4. strips to the waist
  5. stript
  6. striptease
  7. striptease bar
  8. striptease bars
  9. stripteased
  10. stripteaser
  11. stripteasers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: striptease (page history and authors); striptease (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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