"taxi dancer" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "taxi dancers",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88:",
          "text": "They apparently remain taxi-dancers for only about a year or two[.]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Clinton Sanders, Marginal Conventions: Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Social Deviance, page 45:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Joanne J. Meyerowitz, Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930, page 107:",
          "text": "Like waitresses, taxi dancers, women who danced with male customers for a small fee, created a cooperative atmosphere with each other both in the closed dance halls in which they worked and outside of the workplace.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Graham Russell Hodges, Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver, page 40:",
          "text": "At times, taxi dancers were observed arriving at the club in the front seat of the cab, which suggested a relationship with the hack man.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman who works as a professional dance partner in a dancehall that charges customers a price per dance."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "dancehall",
          "dancehall"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A woman who works as a professional dance partner in a dancehall that charges customers a price per dance."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "taxi dance"
        },
        {
          "word": "taxi-dance"
        },
        {
          "word": "taxi dancing"
        },
        {
          "word": "taxi dance hall"
        },
        {
          "word": "taxi-dance hall"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "taxi-dancer"
        }
      ],
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      "wikipedia": [
        "taxi dancer"
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  "word": "taxi dancer"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "taxi dancers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "taxi dancer (plural taxi dancers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "taxi dance"
    },
    {
      "word": "taxi-dance"
    },
    {
      "word": "taxi dancing"
    },
    {
      "word": "taxi dance hall"
    },
    {
      "word": "taxi-dance hall"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88:",
          "text": "They apparently remain taxi-dancers for only about a year or two[.]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Clinton Sanders, Marginal Conventions: Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Social Deviance, page 45:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Joanne J. Meyerowitz, Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930, page 107:",
          "text": "Like waitresses, taxi dancers, women who danced with male customers for a small fee, created a cooperative atmosphere with each other both in the closed dance halls in which they worked and outside of the workplace.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Graham Russell Hodges, Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver, page 40:",
          "text": "At times, taxi dancers were observed arriving at the club in the front seat of the cab, which suggested a relationship with the hack man.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman who works as a professional dance partner in a dancehall that charges customers a price per dance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dancehall",
          "dancehall"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A woman who works as a professional dance partner in a dancehall that charges customers a price per dance."
      ],
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      ],
      "wikipedia": [
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "taxi-dancer"
    }
  ],
  "word": "taxi dancer"
}