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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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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