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legshow en · NOUN

Etymology

From leg + show.

Meanings

1. An erotic entertainment focusing on the display of women's legs.
   • The year was 1868 and their legshow - a chorus line of girls in tights - brought down the house. 1990, Frank W. Hoffmann, William G. Bailey, Arts & Entertainment Fads, page 303:
   • In the "Night Club," the legshows and the brandies are over; and all await the next act. 1970, Elton Edward Smith, Twayne's English authors series, volume 99, page 95:
   • 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. 1930, John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel, page 319:

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