table dancing

British  

noun

1. a form of entertainment in which naked or scantily dressed women dance erotically at the tables of individual members of the audience, who must remain seated

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Other Word Forms

• table dancer noun

Example Sentences

Away from table dancing and Tinseltown, he looks fondly back on the show that gave him his big break and is pleased Gladiators has returned to TV.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2025

They weren’t upset he had to leave early, Jada Walker said, they just wanted more time with him — sitting at the dinner table, dancing to music, hearing her brother’s laugh.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022

There, Odidiva, real name Odidi Mfenyana, powers through a show filled with songs about black and gay empowerment with the gusto of Frank Sinatra in Vegas — only with high kicks and table dancing.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2014

That contrast was only heightened by the fact that throughout the night, one of Ms. Spears’s disciples, Miley Cyrus, was at a front row V.I.P. table, dancing enthusiastically and singing along.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2013

The same is true of the movements of the table dancing in accordance with the rhythm of certain airs, of its over-turnings, of its obedience to the orders given.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille