say it: STRIP-teez
striptease is a noun meaning "a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
“she did a strip right in front of everyone”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for striptease come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.