strippery

English

Etymology 1

strip +‎ -ery

Noun

strippery (plural stripperies)

1. (colloquial) An establishment offering striptease or other erotic dancing.
   • 1966, William Stevens, chapter 6, in The Peddler‎^[1], Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 84:

     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.

   • 1971, Don Pendleton, chapter 8, in The Executioner: Assault On Soho‎^[2], New York: Pinnacle Books, page 73:

     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.

   • 1986, John Godwin, chapter 8, in Frommer’s Australia on $25 a Day‎^[3], New York: Prentice Hall, page 185:

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

2. (colloquial, uncountable) Erotic dancing incorporating stripping.
   • 1963, Female Mimics‎^[4], Volume 1, No. 2, caption, p. 43:

     Gerry Lee bumps and grinds out an unusual bit of strippery—and that G-string doesn’t stand for Girl, either!

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

     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 […]

Synonyms

• (establishment offering striptease): strip club, strip joint (colloquial)

Etymology 2

stripper +‎ -y

Adjective

strippery (comparative more strippery, superlative most strippery)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a stripper.
   • 2008, Laurell K. Hamilton, chapter 20, in Blood Noir‎^[5], New York: Berkley Books, page 104:

     The picture from the website for Guilty Pleasures flashed on the screen. Jason looked pretty, well, strippery in the picture.

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

     “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.’”