exotic dancer

noun

plural exotic dancers
: a person who dances or performs in a seductive or provocative manner while skimpily dressed or while gradually removing their clothes piece by piece especially to the accompaniment of music : stripper, stripteaser

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According to the star, her birth mother was an exotic dancer and her father was a stock car racer and musician. Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2025 Like her adoptive parents, Barbara Cowan (née Crane) and Paul Gilbert, who were actors, Gilbert revealed that her biological parents also came from a background in entertainment — her birth mother was an exotic dancer and her birth father was a stock car racer and musician. Liza Esquibias, People.com, 8 July 2025 Summer of ’69 (Hulu movie) An awkward high school senior (Sam Morelos) hires an exotic dancer (Chloe Fineman) to help seduce her longtime crush before graduation. Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 3 May 2025 Now, Amani and Matt have fallen in love with Any, a single mother and exotic dancer from Tijuana, Mexico. Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 14 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exotic dancer

Word History

First Known Use

1916, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of exotic dancer was in 1916

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“Exotic dancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exotic%20dancer. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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