striptease

From strip + tease.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɪpˌtiz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.

• dance of the seven veils, fan dance

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

1. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.

• strip
• stripper

• tapestries

Unadapted borrowing from English striptease.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstripˌtiːs/, [ˈs̠tripˌt̪iːs̠]
• Rhymes: -iːs
• Syllabification^(key): strip‧tease
• Hyphenation^(key): strip‧tease

striptease

1. striptease (act or show)

There's no standard declension to this term, the one presented in the table is only one possibility. It might be disputed on the basis that the spelling /ˈst̪ript̪iːs/ would be pronounced with front vowel harmony (ä's instead of a's), but this is the way it seems to be mostly used in the printed sources available. In fact, in this model the inflected forms are written as if the word were pronounced as /ˈst̪ripˑt̪eˑaˑse/, which is hardly ever used in speech. When inflected, the word striptease is sometimes substituted in text with striptease-tanssi, striptease-esitys etc. in order to make the word inflectable as a regular word. Another way to avoid inflection problems is to use the terms strippaus or strippi for the act.

• “striptease”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Borrowed from English striptease.

• IPA^(key): /stʁip.tiz/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

striptease m (plural stripteases)

1. striptease

• stripteaseur, stripteaseuse

Unadapted borrowing from English striptease.

striptease m (plural stripteases)

1. striptease (act of slowly taking off one’s clothes to sexually arouse the viewer)

   Synonym: strip

• “striptease”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “striptease”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English striptease.

striptease n (uncountable)

1. striptease

• estriptis, estriptís

Unadapted borrowing from English striptease.

• IPA^(key): /esˈtɾibtis/ [esˈt̪ɾiβ̞.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -ibtis

striptease m (plural stripteases)

1. striptease

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “striptease”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

striptease c

1. a striptease

• stripteasa (“to striptease”)

• strippa

• “striptease”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “striptease”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “striptease”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)