taxi dancer
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈtæksi ˈdænsər/
- Archaic
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bailarina de taxi
- Significantly, the influential University of Chicago School of Sociology, though it addressed all sorts of other "deviants" from taxi dancers to burglars, failed to publish any serious research on homosexuals.
Examples
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I am not gonna become the world's first little old grey-haired taxi dancer.
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- She was a taxi dancer.
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The plot involved a private eye, a taxi dancer, and reincarnation.
Fiction book (1997) -
Taxi dancer.
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In the moment of silence before the reincarnated taxi dancer stepped out of the rubble into the arms of the detective, my Shadow said, "I made you sit through this as punishment."
Fiction book (1997) -
In the lively dance hall, the taxi dancer gracefully twirled with different patrons throughout the night.
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Many men lined up to pay the taxi dancer for a chance to dance with her during the gala event.
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The skilled taxi dancer attracted attention with her captivating movements and charm on the crowded floor.
Synonyms
8
2.7
A person who dances for money as their job
Surface Forms
Morphology
taxi + dancer
While 'dancer' is transparent, 'taxi' here is used metaphorically to signal a pay-per-use service rather than the vehicle, so the full meaning (a paid-for dance partner in a dance hall) is not directly inferable by all B1 learners. The metaphorical compounding requires cultural or lexical exposure to the specific occupational sense, making the expression partially but not fully predictable.
Etymology
The noun taxi dancer comes from old dance halls where customers paid for each dance. People compared these paid dances to hiring a taxi for a short ride, so the paid dancers were called 'taxi dancers'. That's why taxi dancer means 'a woman employed to dance with patrons for a fee per dance'.