dancers

erotic dancer

Someone who dances seductively for an audience while wearing little or no clothing. Please tell me you didn't go see erotic dancers during your bachelor party.
See also: dancer

exotic dancer

Someone who dances seductively for an audience while wearing little or no clothing. Please tell me you didn't go see exotic dancers during your bachelor party.
See also: dancer, exotic

grave-dancer

One who delights in or benefits from someone else's death or misfortune. I'm sure Laura's thrilled that my venture failed—I know she's secretly a grave-dancer.

lap dancer

Someone, typically a woman, who dances exotically while straddling and rubbing against a customer's lap. John's friends took him to a strip club and paid a lap dancer to give him a private session for his birthday. My parents don't approve of her working as a lap dancer, but she's earning enough to pay her way through college.
See also: dancer, lap

pole dancer

A dancer who uses a vertical pole fixed to the ground and ceiling as part of their dance routine, often by twirling and swinging around it. Though traditionally performed as erotic entertainment while nude or partially clothed, such dancing is also done for fitness or fun. I know my parents wouldn't have approved if they knew I was working as a pole dancer to pay for college, so I just told them I was waiting tables. If you're really interested in becoming a pole dancer, I teach classes at the gym.
See also: dancer, pole
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

erotic dancer

n. a dancer, typically female, who performs teasing and sexually stimulating dances, usually on a stage. She was a school teacher by day and an erotic dancer by night.
See also: dancer

grave-dancer

n. someone who profits from or takes advantage of someone else’s misfortune. (From dance on someone’s grave, seemingly in celebration of someone else’s misfortune.) I don’t want to seem like a grave-dancer, but his defeat places me in line for a promotion.

lap dancer

n. an exotic dancer who writhes and rubs her posterior on the lap of a seated customer. Most of us lap dancers follow rules about no touching.
See also: dancer, lap

pole dancer

n. a woman, thought of as a stripper, who performs erotic dances around a metal pole, onstage, exploiting the pole’s phallic form. Jed swears that he has never seen an inept pole dancer.
See also: dancer, pole
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • erotic dancer
  • exotic dancer
  • not have a stitch of clothing (one)
  • with not a stitch of clothing (on)
  • make a dead set at
  • make a dead set at (someone or something)
  • slip into something more comfortable
  • without a stitch of clothing (on)
  • set her cap
  • set your cap at someone
References in classic literature
From John Peel she passed to Bach, who was at this time the subject of her intense enthusiasm, and one by one some of the younger dancers came in from the garden and sat upon the deserted gilt chairs round the piano, the room being now so clear that they turned out the lights.
"I have always heard that nothing comes up to dancing if one is a good dancer," said Mrs.
The Voyage Out
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Hernando Cortez's charity group, Dancers Responding to AIDS, keeps vaulting for a good cause after nine years
Cortez's discoveries
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A touch of class: master teacher Azari Plissetski shares his vision of working through the basics
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Private dancer
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This month: Ann Reinking
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Truth in movement: Ohad Naharin talks about his choreography, his world view, and why the mirror always lies
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Teacher's wisdom: Patricia Berrend
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Your body, yourself: advice on injury prevention from Santa Fe's growing cadre of dancers-turned-healers
As many dancers will tell you, finding their ideal pointe shoe can be a career-long quest.
Perfect pointe
Springing into the middle of a half-dozen rehearsing dancers, he added, "You look very uncomfortable.
Tough love: Mihailo Djuric is taking Festival Ballet Providence to center stage