Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. US black) a striptease artist.

1930

Cab Calloway & His Orchestra ‘Minnie the Moocher’ 🎵 Folks now here’s the story / Of Minnie the Moocher / She was a red-hot / Hoochie-coocher.

2. the buttocks, in the context of a striptease dance.

1931

Blanche Calloway ‘Growlin’ Dan’ 🎵 Minnie the Moocher met my Growlin’ Dan, / She shook her hootchie-cootcher, tryin’ to steal my man.