strippery

plural stripperies

1. colloquialAn establishment offering striptease or other erotic dancing.

   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

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   It was Greenwich Village and Fisherman’s Wharf rolled into composite, an assortment of joints, dives, stripperies, fish-and-chip houses, fine restaurants of all nations, and ever-present discotheques and go-go palaces.

   1971, Don Pendleton, chapter 8, in The Executioner: Assault On Soho, New York: Pinnacle Books, page 73

   Crazy Cats […] is the prime strippery of Perth. Apart from the actual bareskin performers, the place features “See Thru Waitresses” every night except Sunday […]

   1986, John Godwin, chapter 8, in Frommer’s Australia on $25 a Day, New York: Prentice Hall, page 185

   Synonyms: strip club, strip joint

2. colloquialuncountableErotic dancing incorporating stripping.

   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

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   Looking for a little lascivious late-night levity there on Sixth Street? Catch this sharp mix of old-school strippery and humor as one of Austin’s favorite burly-Q bevies busts out its new summertime show […]

   2008 July 25, “The Jigglewatts’ Burlesque du Soleil”, in The Austin Chronicle, page 75

comparative more strippery · superlative most strippery

1. Resembling or characteristic of a stripper.

   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

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   “To me, it’s the rebel woman’s eye makeup, it’s garish, [it speaks to] the virgin/whore interplay. It’s like: ‘My makeup’s strippery, but I’m in control.’”

   2016 May 7, Kate Hutchinson, “Bat For Lashes: ‘Even in Sex and The City, the single girls end up with someone,’”, in The Guardian