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lap dance

American  

noun

lap dances plural
  1. an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.


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Origin of lap dance

First recorded in 1990–95

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The Duke of Sussex has told a court he was suspicious about how a newspaper got a story on his girlfriend Chelsy Davy being angry with him about him visiting a lap dance club.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2023

This is not a lap dance in Las Vegas, but a revered Balinese custom known as the joged bumbung, or bamboo dance.

From Time Magazine Archive

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