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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
showgirl
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Katrinka is sustained by her search for her long-lost son, and a wardrobe a Vegas showgirl could kill for.
▪ Merrick offered a revealing critique of Stephen Sondheim's high-concept Follies, a musical about ageing showgirls in midlife crisis.
▪ These new short fashions make us all look like showgirls in the miniskirt and the high boots.
▪ They'd really like to make it with a showgirl.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
showgirl

"actress whose role is decorative rather than histrionic" [OED], 1836, from show (v.) + girl.

Wiktionary
showgirl

n. A non-starring but physically beautiful female dancer in an often lavishly produced theatrical revue; a chorine.

WordNet
showgirl

n. a woman who dances in a chorus line [syn: chorus girl, chorine]

Wikipedia
Showgirl

A showgirl is a female dancer or performer in a stage entertainment show intended to showcase the performer's physical attributes, typically by way of revealing clothing or even toplessness or nudity. Showgirls are often associated with Latin music and dance, particularly samba .

The term showgirl is sometimes applied to a promotional model employed in trade fairs and car shows.

Showgirl (album)

Showgirl is a live album by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue. It was released along with her first digital single, " Over the Rainbow". The album includes eight of Minogue's biggest hits, live from London in 2005.

Showgirl (video)

Kylie Showgirl is a live DVD by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue. Filmed during Minogue's Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour on 6 May 2005 at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London, England, it was released by EMI on 25 November 2005 in Europe.

Showgirl (disambiguation)

Showgirl may refer to the following:

Business
  • Showgirl, a dancer or performer in a stage entertainment show
  • Promotional model, a model active at product presentation events, etc.
Films and plays
  • Show Girl, a 1928 film starring Alice White
  • Show Girl, a 1929 musical by the Gershwins and others
  • Show Girl, a 1961 Broadway musical by Charles Gaynor
  • Showgirls, a 1995 film directed by Paul Verhoeven
Music
  • Showgirl (album), a 2004 digital live album by singer Kylie Minogue
  • "Show Girl" (The Auteurs song), the debut single by The Auteurs
  • "Show Girl" (Slimmy song)
  • Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour, the first Greatest Hits tour by Kylie Minogue
  • Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour, the conclusion to Minogue's "Showgirl Tour"
  • Showgirls (soundtrack), the soundtrack album to the 1995 film Showgirls
Showgirl (Mumzy Stranger song)

"Showgirl" is a song recorded by English singer Mumzy Stranger. It was released on 21 January 2013 by Tiffin Beats Records.

Usage examples of "showgirl".

Vegas showgirl, a homebody scientist, an obscure research assistant nobody was watching, all acting on their collective sense of what was right, picked up the dropped stitches.

Subtracting the four showgirls and the nurses, it left a solid eight, nine or maybe more, all of whom were hired guns.

One of the club staff put on an aerobics-class tape and men, women, witches, wizards, doctors, nurses, clowns, and showgirls all began to gyrate enthusiastically.

The showgirls had an easy time meeting the rich and famous, so they began to go out regularly with a fisherman by their side.

He was always surrounded by musicians and stooges and writers and showgirls and down-and-out comics, and everyone else he could gather into his orbit.

Through it all-the early scenes of man's frustrations and drudging labor, the spectacular fireworks and sound effects of the great war which climaxed the third act, the final scenes which depicted man's building of a new world under- 84 ground and the gradual emergence of his dream of freedom from something unattainable to an immediate goal-Hend-ley's attention kept going back to the line of showgirls ringing the stage, specifically searching for the one who had seemed so familiar.

The last time I had been with Tom, about ten minutes before I had passed out, he had been drunk, giggling helplessly, and the two Amazon showgirls we had picked up in Atlanta had been rubbing his naked body with Johnson's Baby Oil.

That way Flo Ziegfeld could slide his ubiquitous showgirls on stage as bathing beauties.

Actually, the vaudeville-loving President would probably have enjoyed very much the highly suggestive but never absolutely libellous story of the young showgirl for whom the fifty-year-old Hearst had, if not forsaken his wife, abandoned her to the rigors of respectable domesticity while he squired, without cigarettes, alcohol or bad language, his chorus girl through the only slightly subdued night life of wartime New York.

With seven massive production numbers, five major variety acts, forty-two girl dancers, forty-two boy dancers, fifteen showgirls, two boy singers, two girl singers (one temperamental), forty-seven crewmen and technicians, a twenty-piece orchestra, one elephant, one lion, two black panthers, six golden retrievers, and twelve white doves, the logistics were mind-numbingly complicated, but a year of arduous labor was evident in the slick and faultless unfolding of the program.