stripper

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}]
    

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]
    

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