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hoochie-coochie

hoochie-coochie is the alternative form of hootchy-kootchy.

Meaning of hootchy-kootchy

Noun

hootchy-kootchy (plural hootchy-kootchies)

  1. (US) A kind of erotic dance similar to a belly dance, formerly performed at carnivals.
    • She let her hair down
      And he did the hoochie-koochie real slow.1961, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, “Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)”, performed by The Coasters
  2. (attributive) Something suggestive or sexualized.
    • In Mary Garden’s hands the princess was an amalgam of the diva of German opera and the ballerina of the Paris Opera rounded out by a good dose of the hootchy-kootchy girl from American vaudeville.2005, Toni Bentley, Sisters of Salome, page 41

Forms of hoochie-coochie

pluralhoochie-coochies

Questions about hoochie-coochie

What is hoochie-coochie the alternative form of?
Hoochie-coochie is the alternative form of hootchy-kootchy.

Words near hoochie-coochie in the dictionary

  1. hooched-up
  2. hooches
  3. hoochie
  4. hoochie mama
  5. hoochie mamas
  6. hoochie-coochie
  7. hoochie-coochies
  8. hoochies
  9. hoochinoo
  10. hoochy-coochies
  11. hoochy-coochy

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