1.
Air Dance: A lap or table dance where there’s
very little contact between the dancer and customer—that is, a lot of air
between them. The term is often used derogatorily by customers expecting or
hoping for more physical contact.
2.
American-style: A topless pool that caters
primarily to men who want to see topless women, as opposed to catering to women
who want to be topless. An American-style topless pool is characterized by loud
modern music, a young crowd, and a party atmosphere. [See Overviews, re:
Topless Pools.]
3.
ANEI: Adjusted nipple entertainment index. [See
Overviews, re: Topless Pools.]
4.
Blind Lap: A lap dance from a dancer whom you
haven’t seen perform on stage and whose body you haven’t gotten a good look at,
because she approaches you from behind. Blind laps are generally considered a
bad idea.
5.
Chum the Waters: To drop lots of dollar bills
onto a stage when first arriving at a strip club in order to get extra
attention from dancers throughout the night.
6.
CPN: Cost Per Nip, a statistical measure derived
by dividing the Stripper-Grade Nipple Count (SGNC) by a topless pool’s
admission fee. [See Overviews, re: Topless Pools.]
7.
Discreet Billing: You may hear this term in a
strip club that takes credit cards. It means that when your credit-card
statement comes, whatever charges you incurred in that club don’t show up as
having been billed by the strip club, but by some other business. For example,
a club that serves food has a restaurant license, so it may have a DBA and bank
account under a restaurant name—even though the restaurant name appears nowhere
on the club’s marquee or in any of the advertising. Not all strip clubs have
discreet billing, so don’t assume they do unless they tell you so. And, of
course, you may still have some explaining to do when your wife wants to know
how you managed to run up an $800 Visa charge at “Poncho’s Taco Villa.” That’s
a lot of tacos.
8.
Dork Detector: A person who works at the door of
a popular entertainment facility (nightclub, pool, etc.), whose job it is to
disallow entrance to customers who don’t fit the image of the type of customers
the facility wants to attract.
9.
European-style: A topless pool that caters
primarily to women who want to swim and/or sunbathe topless. European-style
pools are characterized by soft music and a relaxing atmosphere. [See
Overviews, re: Topless Pools.]
10.
Floor Work: A form of dance consisting of moves
carried out while lying on a stage floor. Floor work is generally the sexiest
part of a dancer’s routine, because the postures mimic erotic poses and
movements in bed.
11.
George: A generous tipper. Strippers see a good
tipper walking into the club and say, “Here comes George.” It refers to
Washington on the dollar bills they expect to soon be littering the stage.
12.
GFE: A “girlfriend experience” — a term used by
dancers to describe the service they offer guys who will pay to just sit and
talk. [In the escort/call-girl biz, GFE also stands for girlfriend experience,
but the meaning is quite different–it means she’s available for unprotected (no
condom) sex and will engage in French kissing. Don’t expect that in a strip
club!]
13.
Go-Go: This term isn’t used much in Vegas. It’s
fairly common on the East coast, especially in New Jersey in clubs where
dancers cannot remove tops or bottoms. A go-go club features bikini dancing
only. I use the term in this book for the few clubs that feature dancers in
bikinis or lingerie.
14.
G-string: A dancer’s string thong with nary more
than a triangle of cloth for covering the genitalia.
15.
House Fee: Same as “stage fee.”
16.
K-Mart Crowd: Stripper slang for a roomful of
customers who tip very little.
17.
Lap Dance: A dance in which the dancer sits down
on the customer’s lap and moves erotically. A lap dance lasts for one song
(generally three minutes).
18.
Line Fishing: A practice of some doormen at
popular nightclubs in which they offer “cuts” to the front to customers willing
to pay a fee.
19.
Line Sliding: A practice of some customers at
popular nightclubs in which they offer a tip to the doorman to cut in front of
others.
20.
Making it Rain: Throwing lots of dollars onto a
stage for a dancer.
21.
Mercy Tip: A tip for a dancer on stage simply
because no one else has been tipping, usually due to a small crowd.
22.
Mileage: A term used by lap-dance and VIP-room
aficionados. High mileage means lots of physical contact with the dancer. Low
mileage means very little or no physical contact.
23.
NIM: Nipples in Motion. [See Overviews, re:
Topless Pools.]
24.
Nude: As the term implies, a dancer in a nude
club takes off everything (or more often everything but her platform heels). In
Las Vegas, only clubs that don’t serve alcohol allow nude dancing. (One club in
North Las Vegas, the Palomino, is an exception to this rule.)
25.
Off-Stage Fee: Dancers aren’t employees of a
strip club. They’re independent contractors who pay a fee in order to work at
the club. This fee is sometimes called the “stage fee.” Dancers who don’t want
to dance on the stage (typically because they prefer to spend all their time
doing lap dances and VIP-room shows that pay more) can pay the clubs an
“off-stage fee,” so that they’re not called upon to dance on stage. The
off-stage fee is higher than the stage fee. For example, at the former
Penthouse Club, a dancer who didn’t want to dance on stage had to pay the club
$50 more to work in the club than dancers who agreed to dance on stage. At
Spearmint Rhino, a more popular club the off-stage fee was $75 more than the
stage fee at that time.
26.
Pole Work: A gymnastic routine performed on a
brass or stainless steel pole mounted on the stage. Some dancers have developed
pole work to an art form.
27.
Private Show: Some clubs have private rooms
where customers can have a one-on-one dance, usually at a higher price than a
lap dance out on the main floor or in the regular VIP room. Like VIP-room
dances, private shows are sold for specific time periods, such as 30 minutes
for $300, and often require that a customer pay a specified bar tab or purchase
a bottle of champagne or other high-end liquor in addition to the room charge.
Sometimes this term is used interchangeably with VIP-room dances in clubs where
no rooms are more private than the VIP room.
28.
Rail: A seat “on the rail” is a seat at the edge
of the stage where you can see the stage dancers close up and tip them for
extra attention. The term comes from the low brass railing that many strip
clubs have around the stage perimeter. (Many older strip clubs around the U.S.
are named “The Brass Rail.”) Quite a few Las Vegas strip clubs still have the
traditional brass rail around the stage. But whether or not the stage has a
rail, if you sit directly adjacent to the stage, you’re “on the rail.” It’s a
breach of strip-club etiquette to occupy a rail seat without tipping the
dancers.
29.
RC: Raincoater. A derogatory term used by
strippers for any customer who strikes them as deviant or weird.
30.
RNC: Raw Nipple Count. [See Overviews, re:
Topless Pools.]
31.
SGNC: Stripper-Grade Nipple Count. [See
Overviews, re: Topless Pools.]
32.
Shower Show: A few clubs in Vegas have showers
where a customer can pay to watch a dancer get wet. Shower shows became popular
in Canadian strip clubs about 20 years ago and have since entered many U.S.
clubs.
33.
Silicone: I generally use the term silicone to
denote breast enhancement, though silicone was prohibited by law for more than
10 years. During this period, a saline solution was used for boob jobs, as it
was considered safer. A couple years ago, however, the FDA removed the
prohibition against silicone inserts for breast augmentation, so silicone has
become the standard again. There’s an argument that silicone inserts create a
more natural looking (and moving) breast. A boob job generally costs $1,500 to $5,000.
Most dancers insist that a boob job not only increases their tips, but gets
them work in many of the higher-end clubs where big breasts reign supreme.
34.
Spiff: A “commission” a cabbie receives from a
club for delivering customers. A spiff is the reason cabbies in Vegas might not
recommend the “best” clubs to tourists, in favor of recommending the clubs that
pay them the most.
35.
SPW: Statistical Probability of Wood. A measure
for comparing the sexiness of the stage shows in strip clubs. [See full explanation
in my Strip Club Ratings Guide.]
36.
Stage Fee: In most U.S. strip clubs, including
all the clubs in Las Vegas, dancers pay a stage fee to work in the club.
Dancers are considered private contractors, rather than employees of the strip
clubs. Stage fees vary from club to club, and often vary within the same club
based on the shift and day of week. Between stage fees and “tipouts” (see
below), a dancer may have to earn $100 or more in tips and lap-dance charges
per shift just to cover her required payments to the club. (See also “Off-Stage
Fee.”)
37.
Starter: The first woman to take her top off at
a topless pool, which encourages other women to do so. [See Overviews, re:
Topless Pools.]
38.
Sympathy Tip: Same as “mercy tip.”
39.
Table Dance: In Las Vegas, this is the same
thing as a lap dance, though the term isn’t much in use anymore. In some
cities, where physical contact between customers and dancers isn’t allowed, a
table dance is an air dance on or near a customer’s table.
40.
Theme Room: Some clubs provide small rooms for
private shows decorated according to special themes. For example, a club may
have a room decorated like a hospital room (where a dancer will dress like a
nurse), or a schoolroom (where a dancer will dress like a schoolgirl).
Theme-room dances are often more expensive than regular VIP-room dances.
41.
Tipout: Most strip clubs require dancers to
“tip” other strip-club employees, typically including the bartenders, bouncers,
and doormen, and sometimes even the managers. In some clubs, the tipout is a set
percentage of a dancer’s collections from lap dances, private dances, etc. In
other clubs, the tipout isn’t mandatory, but is often considered essential by
the dancers nevertheless, as it affects the shifts and days of the week they’re
allowed to work, introductions to high rollers, etc. The tipouts and stage fees
generally range from about $25 per shift to more than $100 in the high-end
clubs.
42.
Titty Ball: An informal game played by men in a
topless pool to see who can get the topless women to jump for a beach ball.
43.
Titty Test: A method used by men during a lap
dance in a strip club to determine if a dancer will allow high-mileage physical
contact in the VIP room. The method involves evaluating a dancer’s reaction
when you reach for her tits.
44.
Topless: A topless show is a show where the
dancers show their breasts, including nipples. In Las Vegas, all topless clubs
serve alcohol.
45.
Vulture: A dancer in a strip club, usually well
past her prime, who waits near the entry to pounce on new arrivals and hard-sell
them dances before the customer has a chance to choose another dancer. If you respond to a vulture, she usually
won’t leave you alone as long as she suspects you still have money in your
wallet.
46.
VIP Room: This is a room away from the regular
stage dance area where dancers can entertain customers who pay extra for a more
comfortable and private setting. VIP rooms often require that a customer pay a
specified bar tab or purchase a bottle of champagne or other high-end liquor in
addition to paying the room charge. In most VIP rooms, you’re not one-on-one
with the dancer; a half-dozen or more customers may be in there with dancers at
the same time.
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