striptease

See also: strip-tease

English

Etymology

From strip + tease.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɪpˌtiz/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

striptease (countable and uncountable, plural stripteases)

1. The act of slowly taking off one's clothes to sexually arouse the viewer, often accompanied by music and in exchange for money.

Synonyms

• dance of the seven veils, fan dance

Derived terms

• striptease bar

Descendants

• → Catalan: striptease
• → Czech: striptýz
• → Danish: striptease
• → Finnish: striptease
• → French: striptease
• → Polish: striptiz
• → Portuguese: striptease
• → Russian: стрипти́з (striptíz) (see there for further descendants)
• → Spanish: striptease

Translations

arousing act

• Arabic: رَقْص تَعَرِيّ m (raqṣ taʕariyy), اِسْتْرِبْتِيز m (istribtīz)
• Armenian: ստրիպտիզ (hy) (striptiz), (rare) մերկապար (hy) (merkapar)
• Bulgarian: стриптийз m (striptijz)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 脫衣舞 / 脱衣舞 (zh) (tuōyīwǔ)

• Czech: striptýz m
• Dutch: striptease (nl) m
• Esperanto: striptizo
• Estonian: striptiisi
• Finnish: strippaus (fi), strippaaminen (fi), striptease (fi)
• French: striptease (fr) m, effeuillage (fr) m
• Galician: striptease (gl) m
• Georgian: სტრიპტიზი (sṭriṗṭizi)
• German: Striptease (de) m or n
• Greek: στριπτίζ (el) n (striptíz)
• Hindi: स्ट्रिपटीज़ (sṭripṭīz)
• Icelandic: nektardans (is) m, strípidans m
• Italian: spogliarello (it) m, striptease (it) m
• Japanese: ストリップ (ja) (sutorippu), ストリップショー (ja) (sutorippu shō)
• Korean: 스트립쇼 (seuteuripsyo)
• Macedonian: стриптиз m (striptiz)
• Malay: tarian bogel
• Norman: d'sabil'lie f
• Norwegian: striptease (no) m
• Persian: استریپ‌تیز (estirip-tiz)
• Polish: striptiz (pl) m
• Portuguese: striptease (pt) m, strip m
• Russian: стрипти́з (ru) m (striptíz)
• Spanish: striptease m (striptis), estriptis (es) m, estriptís (es) m
• Swedish: striptease c
• Thai: ระบำเปลื้องผ้า (rá-bam bplêuang-pâa)
• Turkish: striptiz (tr)
• Vietnamese: điệu múa thoát y, thoát y vũ (脫衣舞)
• Yiddish: בלייזטאַנץ m (bleyztants)

Verb

striptease (third-person singular simple present stripteases, present participle stripteasing, simple past and past participle stripteased)

1. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.

Related terms

• strip
• stripper

Translations

to perform striptease

• Dutch: strippen (nl)
• Finnish: stripata (fi)
• French: stripteaser (fr), strip-teaser (fr)
• Swedish: stripteasa

Anagrams

• tapestries

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English striptease.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstripˌtiːs/, [ˈs̠tripˌt̪iːs̠]
• Rhymes: -iːs
• Syllabification^(key): strip‧tease
• Hyphenation^(key): strip‧tease

Noun

striptease

1. striptease (act or show)

Usage notes

There's no standard declension to this term, the one presented in the table is only one possibility. It might be disputed on the basis that the spelling /ˈst̪ript̪iːs/ would be pronounced with front vowel harmony (ä's instead of a's), but this is the way it seems to be mostly used in the printed sources available. In fact, in this model the inflected forms are written as if the word were pronounced as /ˈst̪ripˑt̪eˑaˑse/, which is hardly ever used in speech. When inflected, the word striptease is sometimes substituted in text with striptease-tanssi, striptease-esitys etc. in order to make the word inflectable as a regular word. Another way to avoid inflection problems is to use the terms strippaus or strippi for the act.

Declension

Inflection of striptease (irregular) singular plural nominative striptease stripteaset genitive stripteasen stripteasien partitive stripteasea stripteaseja accusative striptease stripteasen stripteaset inessive stripteasessa stripteaseissa elative stripteasesta stripteaseista illative stripteaseen stripteaseihin adessive stripteasella stripteaseilla ablative stripteaselta stripteaseilta allative stripteaselle stripteaseille essive stripteasena stripteaseina translative stripteaseksi stripteaseiksi abessive stripteasetta stripteaseitta instructive – stripteasein comitative – stripteaseineen

Derived terms

compounds

• striptease-esitys

Related terms

• stripata
• strippari
• strippaus
• strippi

Further reading

• “striptease”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English striptease.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʁip.tiz/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

striptease m (plural stripteases)

1. striptease

Derived terms

• stripteaseur, stripteaseuse

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English striptease.

Noun

striptease m (plural stripteases)

1. striptease (act of slowly taking off one’s clothes to sexually arouse the viewer)

   Synonym: strip

Further reading

• “striptease”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “striptease”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English striptease.

Noun

striptease n (uncountable)

1. striptease

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	striptease	stripteaseul
genitive-dative	striptease	stripteaseului
vocative	stripteaseule

Spanish

Alternative forms

• estriptis, estriptís

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English striptease.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈtɾibtis/ [esˈt̪ɾiβ̞.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -ibtis

Noun

striptease m (plural stripteases)

1. striptease

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “striptease”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Noun

striptease c

1. a striptease

Declension

Declension of striptease

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	striptease	stripteases
	definite	stripteasen	stripteasens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• stripteasa (“to striptease”)

See also

• strippa

References

• “striptease”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “striptease”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “striptease”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)