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stripteaser collapse

overdraw collapse: draw more money from than is available; "She overdrew her account"

geisha collapse: a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing

overdo collapse: do something to an excessive degree; "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups"

sarcasm collapse: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift

falsify collapse: falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records"; prove false; "Falsify a claim"; make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

squib collapse: firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise

stripper collapse: a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music; a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books; a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish

tragicomedy collapse: a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating

overreact collapse: show an exaggerated response to something; "Don't overreact to the bad news--take it easy"

dancer collapse: a performer who dances; a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball)

misquote collapse: quote incorrectly; "He had misquoted the politician"

conjurer collapse: a witch doctor who practices conjury

mountebank collapse: a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

heightening collapse

chorus girl collapse: a woman who dances in a chorus line

exorbitance collapse: excessive excess

imitate collapse: make a reproduction or copy of; reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"; appear like, as in behavior or appearance; "Life imitate art"

vaudevillian collapse: a performer who works in vaudeville

light show collapse: a display of colored lights moving in shifting patterns

huckstering collapse

overstate collapse: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"

boards collapse: the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink; the stage of a theater; "most actors love to stride the boards"

irony collapse: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"; a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

comic collapse: of or relating to or characteristic of comedy; "comic hero"

hoofer collapse: a professional dancer

drama collapse: the quality of being arresting or highly emotional; the literary genre of works intended for the theater; an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

libel collapse: the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief he seeks; a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person; print slanderous statements against; "The newspaper was accused of libeling him"

dilation collapse: the act of expanding an aperture; "the dilation of the pupil of the eye"; a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic

grandiloquence collapse

Thalia collapse: (Greek mythology) one of the three Graces; (Greek mythology) the Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry

high camp collapse

belie collapse

performer collapse: an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience

hyperbole collapse: extravagant exaggeration

stretching collapse: act of expanding by lengthening or widening

mummer collapse

impersonator collapse: someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another

overkill collapse: any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal; the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required

musical comedy collapse

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