a sinuous, quasi-Oriental dance performed by a woman and characterized chiefly by suggestive gyrating and shaking of the body
Also: cootch. Also called: cooch dance, hootchy-kootchy, coochie-coochie (ˈkuːtʃi ˈkuːtʃi)
Word origin
[1940–45; appar. short for hootchy-kootchy]This word is first recorded in the period 1940–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: black box, sealant, set-aside, silkscreen, snorkel