"taxi dancer" meaning in All languages combined

See taxi dancer on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: taxi dancers [plural]
Etymology: 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. Head templates: {{en-noun}} taxi dancer (plural taxi dancers)
  1. (US) A woman who works as a professional dance partner in a dancehall that charges customers a price per dance. Wikipedia link: taxi dancer Tags: US Categories (topical): People Synonyms: taxi-dancer Related terms: taxi dance, taxi-dance, taxi dancing, taxi dance hall, taxi-dance hall
    Sense id: en-taxi_dancer-en-noun-2o6JPjJa Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2007, Graham Russell Hodges, Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver, page 40:",
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