stripper
/ˈstrɪpə
/noun
1A device used for stripping something: a wire stripper removes insulation from flex...
- Commercial strippers have tanks and booths, exhaust fans, and use the strongest chemicals purchased by the barrel.
- Newer more environment- and people-friendly strippers are much safer to use but may take considerably longer to work.
- Use a cable stripper to prevent cutting the plastic coating on the wires.
1.1 [mass noun] Solvent for removing paint: paint stripper...
- Never use any paint stripper in a poorly ventilated area.
- You will need paint stripper and a brush, a scraper and some sandpaper.
- After years of cocktail bars making stuff tasting like paint stripper and red cordial these guys know how to do it right.
2A striptease performer: the stripper gyrated on the tiny stage...
- When I first moved away from home at age 18, I lived with a woman who was an exotic dancer, a stripper really.
- It was then I realized what go-go dancers have become: strippers who don't take their clothes off.
- They soon meet a couple of male strippers whose ambiguous relationship mirrors their own.
