taxi dancer
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See also: taxi-dancer
English
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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.
Noun
taxi dancer (plural taxi dancers)
- (US) A woman who works as a professional dance partner in a dancehall that charges customers a price per dance.
- 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88:
- They apparently remain taxi-dancers for only about a year or two[.]
- 1990, Clinton Sanders, Marginal Conventions: Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Social Deviance, page 45:
- 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.
- 1991, Joanne J. Meyerowitz, Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930, page 107:
- 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.