legshow
English
Etymology
leg + show
Noun
legshow (plural legshows)
- An erotic entertainment focusing on the display of women's legs.
- 1930, John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel (page 319)
- Doc wanted to go to see a legshow and asked the barkeep. A little fat man with an American flag in the lapel of his coat overheard him and said the best legshow in New York was Minsky's on East Houston Street.
- 1970, Elton Edward Smith, Twayne's English authors series (volume 99, page 95)
- In the "Night Club," the legshows and the brandies are over; and all await the next act.
- 1990, Frank W. Hoffmann, William G. Bailey, Arts & Entertainment Fads (page 303)
- The year was 1868 and their legshow - a chorus line of girls in tights - brought down the house.
- 1930, John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel (page 319)