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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.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of go-go dancer

First recorded in 1960–65


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“In 2024, I got to be a go-go dancer for DJ Irene’s birthday party at the Mayan,” Champagne recalled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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

Early on, in addition to dancing with Donald McKayle, Pearl Lang, John Butler and various ballet companies, you were a go-go dancer at a nightclub in Greenwich Village.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2018

The former go-go dancer said agents also had copies of his bank records, including checks from Thompson, in addition to emails and faxes the man sent to Spann and Thompson.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2016

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 Josephine G. Paterson

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