strip-teasen.

Forms: Also strip tease, striptease.

Etymology: Back-formation < strip-teaser n.

colloquial (originally U.S.).

1. A kind of entertainment in which a female (occasionally a male) performer undresses gradually in a tantalizingly erotic fashion before an audience, usually to music; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease

girl show1841

strip1928

teaser1929

strip-tease1936

strip-teasing1937

ecdysiasm1947

full monty1997

1930 Variety 1 Oct. 49/4 Girls have the strip and tease down to a science.]

1936 Variety 2 Dec. 70/5 An undersea ballet, veil waving number and a mild strip tease by the entire chorus, which required little feeling, were nicely executed.

1937 Daily Tel. 29 Apr. 22/2 Can anything be said in defence of the present public interest in ‘strip-tease’ and nudist or semi-nudist displays on stage?

1943 Scrutiny 11 286 The business-cum-Riviera set of which he is the representative in fiction (on the stage—strip-tease) were very pally with Goering and Co.

1960 News Chron. 23 Sept. 10/2 Strip-tease..can be banal.

1978 G. Greene Human Factor ii. iii. 75 I thought dinner in the Café Grill and afterwards a spot of strip-tease.

2. In transferred and figurative use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > state of uncertainty, suspense > [noun] > cause of suspense

tenterhook1823

strip-tease1937

1937 Hansard Commons 20 Apr. 1623 We had a display of what I believe is now known as ‘strip-tease’, in which we were kept in tantalising expectation of what was to come.

1956 E. Linklater Dark of Summer iv. 62 The whole female art of novel-writing—is an exquisitely prolonged strip-tease.

1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games 13 They snatch the girls' ties or hair ribbons and call it ‘Strip Tease’.

1982 J. O'Faolain Obedient Wife i. 26 ‘Do you feel I owe you a confidence?’ ‘No..if I come here to do a strip-tease, it doesn't mean you have to.’

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

ΚΠ

1936 N.Y. Post 15 Sept. 13/1 Gypsy Rose Lee is at once the Bernhardt, the Duse and the Joan Crawford of Strip-Tease girls.

1939 A. Huxley After Many a Summer i. vi. 71 A strip-tease dancer in a Western mining-camp.

1944 ‘G. Orwell’ in Horizon 10 237 A strip-tease act.

1953 C. Day Lewis Ital. Visit i. 25 Whoever would master the truth by which your provocative, charming Strip-tease universe lives.

1958 N. Marsh Singing in Shrouds v. 101 That damn' spiritual striptease session.

1979 C. MacLeod Family Vault xi. 71 Does it disgust you..that your..husband once made a fool of himself over a striptease dancer?

C2.

strip-tease artist n. a performer of strip-tease.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease artist

teaser1929

stripper1930

strip-teaser1930

strippeuse1939

ecdysiast1940

strip-teaseuse1941

peeler1942

stripteuse1942

strip-tease artist1947

exotic1954

split beaver1972

1947 H. A. Smith Low Man on Totem Pole viii. 68 Miss Lee turned to a paragraph in the magazine in which Henry L. Mencken was represented as having coined a word to describe a strip-tease artist.

1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues vi. 251 As the strip-tease artist compares with the artist's model, so the seductive effects of slow unveiling are more stimulating erotically than the starkly naked.

Derivatives

strip-tease v. intransitive to perform a strip-tease act.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > perform in variety [verb (intransitive)] > striptease

tease1927

strip1929

strip-tease1937

1937 G. Frankau More of Us 185 Dalliest thou, stripteasing and beachcombing, On some far southern beach of Gallic joy.

1958 Listener 18 Sept. 418/2 I..drove to a night club, where a girl stripteased while lashing a whip.

strip-teaseuse n. jocular alteration of strip-teaser n. (cf. chanteuse n., strippeuse n., etc.).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease artist

teaser1929

stripper1930

strip-teaser1930

strippeuse1939

ecdysiast1940

strip-teaseuse1941

peeler1942

stripteuse1942

strip-tease artist1947

exotic1954

split beaver1972

1941 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Mar. 20/2 (caption) Strip-teaseuses Betty Coette..and Winnie Garrett.

1977 J. Mitford Fine Old Conflict vii. 118 I was temporarily in despair, hoping against hope that something would turn up. It did, in the shape of a former stripteaseuse whom I had met at a PW party.

strip-teasing n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease

girl show1841

strip1928

teaser1929

strip-tease1936

strip-teasing1937

ecdysiasm1947

full monty1997

1937 Variety 31 Mar. 69/1 Kraus is accused by John S. Sumner, head of the vice society, of permitting strip-teasing in his show.

1960 News Chron. 22 Sept. 3/1 I have given up strip-teasing to be with my husband.

strip-teasing adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > [adjective] > striptease

exotic1954

strip-teasing1957

1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 611/1 Little Rose Louise was..new to burlesque, and able to gasp at strip-teasing Flossie.

1962 Guardian 23 Feb. 9/4 A strip-teasing woman.

stripteuse n. = strip-teaseuse n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease artist

teaser1929

stripper1930

strip-teaser1930

strippeuse1939

ecdysiast1940

strip-teaseuse1941

peeler1942

stripteuse1942

strip-tease artist1947

exotic1954

split beaver1972

1942 Time 28 Sept. 40/3 Gipsy Rose Lee, stripteuse turned woman of letters.

1951 Sun (Baltimore) 27 June 30/3 A blond stripteuse was arrested at a Silver Hill night spot.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	strip-tease
释义	strip-teasen. Forms: Also strip tease, striptease. Etymology: Back-formation < strip-teaser n. colloquial (originally U.S.). 1. A kind of entertainment in which a female (occasionally a male) performer undresses gradually in a tantalizingly erotic fashion before an audience, usually to music; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease girl show1841 strip1928 teaser1929 strip-tease1936 strip-teasing1937 ecdysiasm1947 full monty1997 1930 Variety 1 Oct. 49/4 Girls have the strip and tease down to a science.] 1936 Variety 2 Dec. 70/5 An undersea ballet, veil waving number and a mild strip tease by the entire chorus, which required little feeling, were nicely executed. 1937 Daily Tel. 29 Apr. 22/2 Can anything be said in defence of the present public interest in ‘strip-tease’ and nudist or semi-nudist displays on stage? 1943 Scrutiny 11 286 The business-cum-Riviera set of which he is the representative in fiction (on the stage—strip-tease) were very pally with Goering and Co. 1960 News Chron. 23 Sept. 10/2 Strip-tease..can be banal. 1978 G. Greene Human Factor ii. iii. 75 I thought dinner in the Café Grill and afterwards a spot of strip-tease. 2. In transferred and figurative use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > state of uncertainty, suspense > [noun] > cause of suspense tenterhook1823 strip-tease1937 1937 Hansard Commons 20 Apr. 1623 We had a display of what I believe is now known as ‘strip-tease’, in which we were kept in tantalising expectation of what was to come. 1956 E. Linklater Dark of Summer iv. 62 The whole female art of novel-writing—is an exquisitely prolonged strip-tease. 1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games 13 They snatch the girls' ties or hair ribbons and call it ‘Strip Tease’. 1982 J. O'Faolain Obedient Wife i. 26 ‘Do you feel I owe you a confidence?’ ‘No..if I come here to do a strip-tease, it doesn't mean you have to.’ Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1936 N.Y. Post 15 Sept. 13/1 Gypsy Rose Lee is at once the Bernhardt, the Duse and the Joan Crawford of Strip-Tease girls. 1939 A. Huxley After Many a Summer i. vi. 71 A strip-tease dancer in a Western mining-camp. 1944 ‘G. Orwell’ in Horizon 10 237 A strip-tease act. 1953 C. Day Lewis Ital. Visit i. 25 Whoever would master the truth by which your provocative, charming Strip-tease universe lives. 1958 N. Marsh Singing in Shrouds v. 101 That damn' spiritual striptease session. 1979 C. MacLeod Family Vault xi. 71 Does it disgust you..that your..husband once made a fool of himself over a striptease dancer? C2. strip-tease artist n. a performer of strip-tease. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease artist teaser1929 stripper1930 strip-teaser1930 strippeuse1939 ecdysiast1940 strip-teaseuse1941 peeler1942 stripteuse1942 strip-tease artist1947 exotic1954 split beaver1972 1947 H. A. Smith Low Man on Totem Pole viii. 68 Miss Lee turned to a paragraph in the magazine in which Henry L. Mencken was represented as having coined a word to describe a strip-tease artist. 1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues vi. 251 As the strip-tease artist compares with the artist's model, so the seductive effects of slow unveiling are more stimulating erotically than the starkly naked. Derivatives strip-tease v. intransitive to perform a strip-tease act. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > perform in variety [verb (intransitive)] > striptease tease1927 strip1929 strip-tease1937 1937 G. Frankau More of Us 185 Dalliest thou, stripteasing and beachcombing, On some far southern beach of Gallic joy. 1958 Listener 18 Sept. 418/2 I..drove to a night club, where a girl stripteased while lashing a whip. strip-teaseuse n. jocular alteration of strip-teaser n. (cf. chanteuse n., strippeuse n., etc.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease artist teaser1929 stripper1930 strip-teaser1930 strippeuse1939 ecdysiast1940 strip-teaseuse1941 peeler1942 stripteuse1942 strip-tease artist1947 exotic1954 split beaver1972 1941 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Mar. 20/2 (caption) Strip-teaseuses Betty Coette..and Winnie Garrett. 1977 J. Mitford Fine Old Conflict vii. 118 I was temporarily in despair, hoping against hope that something would turn up. It did, in the shape of a former stripteaseuse whom I had met at a PW party. strip-teasing n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease girl show1841 strip1928 teaser1929 strip-tease1936 strip-teasing1937 ecdysiasm1947 full monty1997 1937 Variety 31 Mar. 69/1 Kraus is accused by John S. Sumner, head of the vice society, of permitting strip-teasing in his show. 1960 News Chron. 22 Sept. 3/1 I have given up strip-teasing to be with my husband. strip-teasing adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > [adjective] > striptease exotic1954 strip-teasing1957 1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 611/1 Little Rose Louise was..new to burlesque, and able to gasp at strip-teasing Flossie. 1962 Guardian 23 Feb. 9/4 A strip-teasing woman. stripteuse n. = strip-teaseuse n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease artist teaser1929 stripper1930 strip-teaser1930 strippeuse1939 ecdysiast1940 strip-teaseuse1941 peeler1942 stripteuse1942 strip-tease artist1947 exotic1954 split beaver1972 1942 Time 28 Sept. 40/3 Gipsy Rose Lee, stripteuse turned woman of letters. 1951 Sun (Baltimore) 27 June 30/3 A blond stripteuse was arrested at a Silver Hill night spot. 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