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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Tyler Perry's gone full sicko mode with Beauty in Black, a soapy thriller about an exotic dancer who infiltrates the lives of the Bellarie beauty dynasty and disrupts its connections to a seedy criminal underbelly. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025 Back then my sister lived in her own delusion, too, as an exotic dancer. Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025 The Netflix series from Tyler Perry follows an exotic dancer named Kimmie (Taylor Polidore Williams), whose life becomes intertwined with the Bellarie family and their Beauty in Black haircare company. Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025 In Season 1, viewers met exotic dancer Kimmie, a victim of abuse and an underground human trafficking operation, as her life deeply intersects with the Bellaires — a wealthy, powerful family running a successful hair care business in Chicago. Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 11 Sep. 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 20 Sep. 2025.

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