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hootchy-kootchies

hootchy-kootchies is the plural 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

Questions about hootchy-kootchies

What is hootchy-kootchies the plural of?
Hootchy-kootchies is the plural of hootchy-kootchy.

Words near hootchy-kootchies in the dictionary

  1. hootches
  2. hootchie
  3. hootchie-cootchie
  4. hootchie-cootchies
  5. hootchies
  6. hootchy-kootchies
  7. hootchy-kootchy
  8. hooted
  9. hooted down
  10. hooted it up
  11. Hooten

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