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Peeler

noun

A performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music. Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, stripper, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser.

A worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables.

A device for peeling vegetables or fruits.

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"Peeler" Quotes from Famous Books

... and a reg'lar good comp'ny was a looking on—at the west end, in a slap up street, where there ain't no thoroughfare—and jist as you're a doin' the basin, and the browns is a droppin' into the 'at, up comes a Peeler. Then it's 'Move on!' You must go;" he stared harder than ever, and thumped his hand on the table; "I say you must go, and lose p'raps a pick up as 'u'd keep you for a week. ...

— A Tramp's Wallet - stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France • William Duthie

... mainslacks, and splice your marline-spike. Where are you coming to?" cried Peeler, the coastguardsman—for such, we need hardly say, was the rank of the ...

— Boycotted - And Other Stories • Talbot Baines Reed

... of value, uneasy about their treasures, lest their turn for spoliation might come next. The police arrangements for the town were still of a very primitive character, and quite inadequate for due protection of the householder. The days of the "bobby" and "peeler" were not yet, at least in country districts; although Sir Robert Peel had done away with the old watchman, and established the present police system in the metropolis; and some other of our larger towns had followed suit. But in Horncastle the constable, by ...

— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter

... a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox: ...

— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce

... skiff touched shore, the camp consisted of two cooks and three scullions. The Kid was a hewer and packer of wood, I was a peeler and slicer of things, and Bill, sweetly oblivious of his bewhiskered dignity, danced about in the humblest of moods, handing this and that ...

— The River and I • John G. Neihardt