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strip-tease (n.)
also
striptease
, 1936, perhaps a back-formation from
stripteaser
(1930); see
strip
(v.) +
tease
(n.).
Strip
(v.) and
tease
(v.) both were used in this sense in late 1920s. Life magazine used
strippeuse
(1938-40).
