taxi dancing

noun

1. a system, as in a dance hall or hotel, whereby a person pays for a partner ( taxi dancer ) for a dance, payment being required for each individual dance during an evening

Example Sentences

During the 1920s and 1930s, taxi dancing was a popular ticket-a-dance arrangement that operated in closed dance halls.

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Today, though, with morality up for grabs and corruption setting its sights on loftier goals, the notion of taxi dancing, once thought of as illicit, now seems quaint.

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“She hired him for the evening. They’re taxi dancing,” she said.

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Still sleek and jolly, he was observed stuffing pigs' knuckles and sauerkraut, running down a street after a taxi, dancing until 5 a. m. on New Year's Eve.

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