stripper

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: strip=per

CIDE DICTIONARY

stripper, n. 

•  One who, or that which, strips;  [1913 Webster]
•  A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  A harvesting machine that strips the seed from the stalks of grain plants.  [PJC]
•  a solvent or chemical solution used to remove coatings of paint, varnish, lacquer, etc. prior to refinishing a surface.  [PJC]
•  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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stripper, n.
1 a person or thing that strips something.
2 a device or solvent for removing paint etc.
3 a striptease performer.

THESAURUS

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