go-go dancer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of go-go dancer
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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“I was the proverbial hippie,” she told Florida Weekly in 2020, working as a heavy-set comedic go-go dancer.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2025
Her mother was a dance teacher and, pre-fame, Hawn performed as a ballerina and go-go dancer before being spotted on a can-can line in Los Angeles and drafted into TV comedy.
From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2020
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
Frontwoman Molly Sides is like a sequined go-go dancer let loose from her cage, bending backward to the floor, or leaning forward, almost into the crowd, drawing them toward the stage.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 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 Paterson, Josephine G.
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