lap dance

noun

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

Other Word Forms

• lap-dance verb (used without object)
• lap dancing noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of lap dance¹

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

Vaughn Henry also alleged that Adams Kellum, while attending a conference in Washington, D.C., became “extremely inebriated and got a ‘lap dance’ from a female consultant that she had just hired to do work for LAHSA.”

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In the video, the rapper notoriously pole dances from celestial heights to the depths of hell, where he gives Satan a lap dance before snapping his neck and becoming the lord of the underworld.

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But he "very clearly did not want to buy a lap dance," she says.

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In “The Best Man,” she plays a stripper named Candy, and she and Perrineau share one of the film’s most memorable scenes as Candy treats Perrineau’s henpecked youth counselor, Julian “Murch” Murchison, to a spirited lap dance during the bachelor party.

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A lap dance turns into private house calls, and Ani is soon hired by Ivan to be his girlfriend for an impromptu trip to Las Vegas, where they impulsively get married.

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