Definition of taxi dancer in English:
taxi dancer
nounˈtaksi dɑːnsəˈtæksidɑːnsə(r)
North American A professional dance partner.
Example sentencesExamples
- It replaced Fellini's waif-like Italian prostitute with the equally waif-like New York taxi dancer Charity Hope Valentine, whose day-to-day existence is sketched out right at the top of the show.
- He worked for a while as a taxi dancer (paid by the ‘ride’, or dance), and performed in dance exhibitions.
- She believes that Fowler has ruined Phuong's chances for respectable marriage, that her sister is doomed to return to her former life as a taxi dancer.
- Born in Italy in 1895, Valentino went to New York at the age of 18, where he earned his living at Maxim's as a taxi dancer - paid to dance with unaccompanied women.
- The Russian family of whom Natasha Richardson's character (Countess Sofia Belinsky) is a member has fallen on such hard times the others must depend on her income as a taxi dancer in louche clubs.
- When Ma and Pa Rockefeller object to young Jason miscegenating with the hired help, Nisa flees the mansion, taking a new job as a taxi dancer in a Hollywood sex club.
- Once a member of the aristocracy, she now lives in genteel poverty, working as a taxi dancer.
- Ruth Etting (Doris Day, Calamity Jane) is a young taxi dancer who wants to stop working the floor in sleazy Chicago night joints and make it to the stage.
- After a series of odd jobs, he became a taxi dancer and then an exhibition dancer in New York City.
- Some fellow students exhausted by the expertise of the taxi dancers even wanted to dance with me.