go-go dancer

American  

noun

1. an entertainer who performs popular dances on a stage or platform for the patrons of a discotheque or nightclub.

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go-go dancer British  

noun

1. a dancer, usually scantily dressed, who performs rhythmic and often erotic modern dance routines, esp in a nightclub or disco

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Etymology

Origin of go-go dancer

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

“I was the proverbial hippie,” she told Florida Weekly in 2020, working as a heavy-set comedic go-go dancer.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2025

Members of the chorus dressed as the robed three kings — but in feathery, neon scarves — and struck go-go dancer poses.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2022

She worked as a photojournalist, a go-go dancer, and a hostess at the Marquis.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2021

Her mother was a dance teacher and, pre-fame, Hawn performed as a ballerina and go-go dancer before being spotted on a can-can line in Los Angeles and drafted into TV comedy.

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2020

Her only rather loud, irrelevant, smiling expression was about her daughter who was a go-go dancer, had three children, and whom she had visited twice by bus in California.

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.

Related Words

• ballet dancer