Green’s Dictionary of Slang

stripper n.²

(orig. US) a striptease performer.

1930		Variety 3 Dec. 54/5: [heading] Detroit censor pinches four stock strippers.
1945		P. Cheyney I’ll Say She Does! 42: I was a stripper one time [...] I had a feature spot in the programme.
1956		F.O. Beck Hobohemia 87: In such vile and loathsome spots the ‘stripper’ is omnipresent and there are everywhere evidences of grossly radical sex practices.
1968		P. Barnes Ruling Class I xiv: Never think I once worked as a stripper, would you?
1977		G.F. Newman Villain’s Tale 18: With little more than the bar and a makeshift proscenium arch where occasional entertainment was put on, usually strippers or an off-key singer.
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 12: Strippers lugging gym bags, hookers out for early luck.
2000		Guardian 12 Jan. 10: A stripper [...] who comes to Tory MPs’ birthday parties and spanks them on the botty with a hairbrush.

In phrases

up and down like a stripper’s knickers

(Aus.) used of a speedy action.

2017

T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 8: This is a Queensland expression, used in such circumstances. It’s up there with ‘up and down like a stripper’s knickers’.