Meaning of hootchy-kootchy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A kind of erotic dance similar to a belly dance, formerly performed at carnivals.
   US
2. Something suggestive or sexualized.
   attributive

Examples

“She let⟳ her hair down And he did the hoochie-koochie real slow.”

“The shows claimed legitimacy as depictions of Middle Eastern and Asian cultures that were still regarded as savage[…] But these dances never were authentic rituals or ethnographic displays; instead they became known as “hootchy-kootchy” or “cooch” dances designed to please⟳ and excite male patrons.”

“In Mary Garden’s hands the princess was an amalgam of the diva of German opera and the ballerina of the Paris Opera rounded out by a good dose of the hootchy-kootchy girl from American vaudeville.”

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