torso-tosser n.
1. an erotic dancer, thus v. toss one’s torso, torso-tossing.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Bakersfield Morn. Echo (CA) 2 June 4/2: Connie Brown, a torso-tosser, in [sic] convalescing after scalding one of her main stems. | |
| Your Broadway & Mine 16 Feb. [synd. col.] A hul dancer violently tossed her torso in front of a drunk’s table. | |
| (ref. to 1890s) Barbary Coast 131: This was the first melodeon or music hall in San Francisco to make a special feature of hoochy-coochy dancers, or, as the theatrical weekly Variety calls them, ‘torso-tossers.’. | |
| Man About Harlem 23 Nov. [synd. col.] [I]n time to enjoy the torso-tossing of that charming lass. . . . Mae Murray. | |
| Billboard 2 Nov. 42/1: A torso tosser who formerly was pleased no end with dragging down 75 hermans a week, soon found herself demanding $125 to $150, and getting it without too much effort. | |
| Show Biz from Vaude to Video 572: Torso-tosser – cootch dancer. | |
| St Louis Globe-Democrat (MO) 9 Oct. 17/1: [advert] Stardust Burlesque / Frosty Connors / ‘Torso Tosser’ / Plus Busty Knight. | |
| Cincinnati Enquirer (OH) 6 Mar. 17/5: [advert] Gayety Theater / Burlesk / New Torrid Torso Tosser Star / Sadie Shore / With More New curves. |
2. a wrestler.
 | Times-Trib. (Scranton, PA) 1 Feb. D-4/3: The melting pot of the ring, however, seems to do little in burning off the fatty tummy tissue of these torso tossers. |