Home › Words › S › stripperystripperystrippery means an establishment offering striptease or other erotic dancing.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, strippery ranks #2,556 of 42,785 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom strip + -ery.nounAn establishment offering striptease or other erotic dancing.e.g.“On [the platform] a lady was quivering and unzipping while three musicians sat cramped in a corner and blew the honky wail which was standard in every strippery.” — 1966, William Stevens, chapter 6, in The Peddler, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 84:Erotic dancing incorporating stripping.e.g.“Gerry Lee bumps and grinds out an unusual bit of strippery—and that G-string doesn’t stand for Girl, either!” — 1963, Female Mimics, Volume 1, No. 2, caption, p. 43:adjResembling or characteristic of a stripper.e.g.“The picture from the website for Guilty Pleasures flashed on the screen. Jason looked pretty, well, strippery in the picture.” — 2008, Laurell K. Hamilton, chapter 20, in Blood Noir, New York: Berkley Books, page 104:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.stripperish 72% match — Characteristic of a stripper (strip-tease artist). vs strippery →striptease 71% match — The act of slowly taking off one's clothes to sexually arouse the viewer, often accompanied by music and in exchange for money. vs strippery →ecdysiast 69% match — An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment; a stripper. vs strippery →stripping 69% match — The act of one who strips. vs strippery →stripperless 68% match — Without strippers (entertainers who remove their clothes). vs strippery →stripperlike 68% match — Resembling or characteristic of a stripper. vs strippery →girlery 65% match — A brothel or show that features scantily clad women. vs strippery →bestrip 61% match — To strip away, remove; strip, undress; deprive. vs strippery →