stripper

Other forms of stripper

plural

strippers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stripper

What does stripper mean?

stripper means "a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stripper?

stripper has 2 syllables: strip-per. The stress falls on "strip". In IPA it is /ˈstɹɪpɚ/.

What is another word for stripper?

Close synonyms include stemmer, sprigger, striptease artist, striptease, stripteaser. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stripper a common word?

stripper is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.