exotic dancer

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

exotic dancer (plural exotic dancers) (euphemistic)

1. A stripper.
   • 2004, Valentine Selena, How to Date an Exotic Dancer: For Men Who Prefer Extraordinary Women, Island Waves, LLC, →ISBN, page 9:

     So you want to date a stripper? If you've answered yes, you've already made a big mistake. The woman you want to date is an “exotic dancer.” If you call a dancer a stripper, you've immediately insulted her.

   • 2016 October 19, Adrienne Green, “What It’s Like to Work as an Exotic Dancer”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     The U.S. has thousands of strip clubs that, some reports say, collectively take in as much as $6 billion every year. […] I spoke with Liza […] about how she became an exotic dancer, how the adult-entertainment industry is changing with increasing priority of the internet, and why people don’t consider her job respectable.

2. A pole dancer.
3. A belly dancer.

Translations

exotic dancer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舞孃／舞娘 (zh) (wǔniáng)

• Dutch: exotisch danser m, exotisch danseres f
• German: exotischer Tänzer m, exotische Tänzerin f
• Irish: damhsóir earótach m
• Portuguese: dançarino exótico m, dançarina exótica f

Further reading

• “exotic dancer”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “exotic dancer”, in Collins English Dictionary.