striptease
noun
strip·tease
ˈstrip-ˌtēz 
plural stripteases
: an act or dance in which a person gradually removes their clothing piece by piece in a seductive or provocative manner especially to the accompaniment of music
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The Real Full Monty is based on a series of British TV specials, which in turn are inspired by the 1997 movie The Full Monty, about a group of regular guys who form a male striptease act.
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Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
The film follows a group of unemployed men who decide to create a Chippendales striptease act to raise funds for a friend.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 13 May 2024
From 1972 to 1975, Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed stripteases for small town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.
—Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
Beaven remembers Lee disappeared and slipped the cassette into the club sound system, before inviting over several dancers to give the most surreal striptease of their lives.
—Adam Steiner, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2024
Intermittently, elastic-limbed burlesque artists enter to striptease, dance and execute feats of dazzling flexibility.
—Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
The first striptease is a visual mess with a seemingly tidy explanation, while the second looks orderly, but is much messier to consider.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2024
And try to stay awake for the striptease scene at the end.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
Their melding of dance, circus, striptease, contemporary art, fashion, drag, burlesque struck him as a formula that would work in Las Vegas.
—Melinda Sheckells, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
The film follows a group of unemployed men who decide to create a Chippendales striptease act to raise funds for a friend.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 13 May 2024
From 1972 to 1975, Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed stripteases for small town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.
—Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
Beaven remembers Lee disappeared and slipped the cassette into the club sound system, before inviting over several dancers to give the most surreal striptease of their lives.
—Adam Steiner, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2024
Intermittently, elastic-limbed burlesque artists enter to striptease, dance and execute feats of dazzling flexibility.
—Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
The first striptease is a visual mess with a seemingly tidy explanation, while the second looks orderly, but is much messier to consider.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2024
And try to stay awake for the striptease scene at the end.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
Their melding of dance, circus, striptease, contemporary art, fashion, drag, burlesque struck him as a formula that would work in Las Vegas.
—Melinda Sheckells, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
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“Striptease.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/striptease. Accessed 20 May. 2024.
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