peep show:
Or: peepshow :1. Any kind of act in which naked women are displayed or revealed.
2. Sexual entertainment in the form of lingerie , nudity, stripteasing, or dancing viewed from a private or semiprivate cubicle with a glass or two-way mirror.
3. In arcade days, a porno-film that could be viewed through a coin-operated projection booth or viewer, usually in coin-by-coin increments. Synonym: peek-a-rama . Prior to that, in the early days of photography, the 1850s, a backroom where men, for a nickel, could view stills of naked and semi-naked women.
4. An exhibition of pornographic pictures viewed through a small hole or with magnifying glass.
5. Observing a prostitute having-sex with an unsuspecting customer through a two-way mirror.
SYNONYMS: raree-show ; sex-show .
QUOTE: Dr. Hugo Hackenbush (Groucho Marx) in A Day at the Races (1937): ' Don't look at me! What do you think I am? A peep show? '
See Also: benrus queen, Bo Peep, chorus girl, circus, doodle gazer, exibeeshes, eyeball queen, face shot, girly girly show, girly show, grind house, jack shack, jiggly show, keek, Lady Elgin, lookie freak, looky-loo, marathon, one-on-one booth, panel house, peek freak, peek-a-rama, peep, peep show, peeper, Peeping Tom, peer queer, R-Rated, raree show, session fee, sex show, sexually explicit, snuff film, snuff movie, spy queen, tail over the dashboard, take the meat out, thumbnail, topless radio, tourist, Turkish medal, unbutton the mutton, voyeur, watch and jack, wheel it out, zip it out
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