strippery

strip +‎ -ery

strippery (plural stripperies)

1. (colloquial) An establishment offering striptease or other erotic dancing.
   • 1966, William Stevens, The Peddler, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., Chapter 6, p. 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, The Executioner: Assault On Soho, New York: Pinnacle Books, Chapter Eight, p. 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, Frommer’s Australia on $25 a Day, New York: Prentice Hall, Chapter 8, p. 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, 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, “The Jigglewatts’ Burlesque du Soleil,” The Austin Chronicle, 25 July, 2008, p. 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 […]

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

stripper +‎ -y

strippery (comparative more strippery, superlative most strippery)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a stripper.
   • 2008, Laurell K. Hamilton, Blood Noir, New York: Berkley Books, Chapter 20, p. 104,

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

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

     “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.’”