taxi dancer
taxi dancer noun: a woman who works as a professional dance partner in a dancehall that charges customers a price per dance.
Noun
taxi dancer (plural taxi dancers)
- A woman who works as a professional dance partner in a dancehall that charges customers a price per dance.
- They apparently remain taxi-dancers for only about a year or two[.]1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88
- Historically taxi-dancers were considered immoral women by the reformers of the nineteen-teens and twenties both because they participated with strangers in an activity generally reserved for established couples and because some engaged in various forms of prostitution.1990, Clinton Sanders, Marginal Conventions: Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Social Deviance, page 45
taxi dancer meaning in Tamil
taxi dancer in Tamil
- காசுக்குக் கூடியாடும் மகள்
Forms of taxi dancer
| plural | taxi dancers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | taxi-dancer |
Origin of taxi dancer
Refers to the fact that a taxi dancer is paid per dance, and thus proportionately to the time spent with a client, similarly to a taxi driver.
Questions about taxi dancer
- What does taxi dancer mean?
- Taxi dancer means a woman who works as a professional dance partner in a dancehall that charges customers a price per dance.
- What is taxi dancer in Tamil?
- Taxi dancer in Tamil is காசுக்குக் கூடியாடும் மகள். See Taxi dancer meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is taxi dancer?
- Taxi dancer is a noun.
- What is the plural of taxi dancer?
- The plural of taxi dancer is taxi dancers.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: taxi dancer (page history and authors); taxI dancer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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