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[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 44: ‘Pinknose’ is breast. ‘Blisters’ is another synonym for the same...‘Oh what blisters she’s got!’.
at blister, n.1
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 43: ‘The Boston version’ [...] ‘Clean it up, the cops are out there’.
at Boston version (n.) under Boston, adj.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 16: The first teaser flashed a breast. A second topped her with a suggestive song. A third added the bump and the grind.
at bump, n.1
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 15: ‘The rough stuff was what made burly tick’.
at burley, n.1
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 41: [of a ‘dirty joke’] Jake can tell dirty jokes without offense [...] he’s gotten away with ‘cacky’ scenes by making them cute instead of dirty.
at cacky, adj.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 15: ‘The tease must have been a click the first time out’.
at click, n.4
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 37: ‘Jokes are “corny” [...] old-timey’.
at corny, adj.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 61: A guy’s from Dixie — Performer who’s no good.
at from Dixie (adj.) under Dixie, n.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 31: — There are a few dykes [in burlesque] [...] Lesbians’.
at dyke, n.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 41: The ‘crazy’ woman who came in to pick lemons off the wall put the finisher on him . When she emerged from the wings [...] he emitted an involuntary prize fighter’s ‘Ugh!’.
at finisher, n.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 43: If the straight man has false teeth and globbers his lines, he’s a ‘flannel mouth’.
at flannel mouth, n.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 10: Carmen [...] flashes her chest [...] Carmen is small and slender. She hasn’t much to flash.
at flash, v.1
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 29: Paul, who sells the rhinestone ‘gadgets’ — otherwise G-strings.
at gadget, n.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 38: The fact that there’s practically no audience turnover [...] make it tough as hell for comedians who are playing a grind house.
at grind house, n.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 17: [headline] Backstage witha Minsky Grinder.
at grinder, n.1
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 37: The strippers are ‘hip-throwers’.
at hip-thrower (n.) under hip, n.3
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 43: A straight man, when he’s no good, is ‘from hunger’...he starves the comic to death.
at from hunger (adj.) under hunger, n.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 37: The audience — anyone who comes to burlesque show — is a ‘jerk’. [...] It’s the jerk who keeps on applauding for the stripper to come back [...] It’s the jerk who snaps candid-camera shots from the front row.
at jerk, n.1
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 37: Jerks get backstage [...] and ask questions for ‘jerky reasons’.
at jerky (adj.) under jerk, n.1
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 33: ‘Since her guy got knocked off she hasn’t been seen around’.
at knocked off, adj.2
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 19: [A]ctresses in the legit [...] Most of them could never make the grade as strippers.
at on the legit (adj.) under legit, n.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 43: A straight man, when he’s no good, [...] may be a ‘liver head’...‘he can’t learn nothin’’.
at liver head (n.) under liver, n.1
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 45: The Minsky boys are reputed to have cut up a melon of 25 G’s a year, beside their regular salary.
at melon, n.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 44: The straight man always has one epithet with which to squelch a comic...‘mountaineer.’ Many of them got their training in what Variety calls the broscht [sic] circuit, the Jewish boarding houses in the Catskills.
at mountaineer, n.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 33: Petty larceny crooks, book-makers, numbers men, grifters.
at numbers-banker (n.) under numbers, the, n.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 44: ‘Pinknose’ is breast. ‘Blisters’ is another synonym for the same...‘Oh what blisters she’s got!’.
at pinknose (n.) under pink, adj.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 31: ‘There’s a lot of reefer fiends’ [...] ‘That’s marijuana cigarettes’.
at reefer-head (n.) under reefer, n.1
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 33: Another stripper’s boy friend was taken for a ride and dumped into Long Island Sound.
at take for a ride (v.) under ride, n.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 15: ‘The rough stuff was what made burly tick’.
at rough stuff, n.
[US] H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 37: ‘Burlesque isn’t that bad. . . but it’s certainly the s.r. of show business’.
at s.r., n.
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