BODICE-RIPPER

PRONUNCIATION: (BOD-is rip-uhr)

MEANING: noun: A type of historical romance, such as a novel or film, featuring passionate and often explicit romantic encounters and forced seduction.

ETYMOLOGY: From bodice (fitted upper part of a woman’s dress), a respelling of bodies, plural of body + ripper, from rip, from Middle English ripper (to pull out sutures). Earliest documented use: 1979.
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BODICE-ZIPPER - a closure that makes getting out of a tight corset much easier

BODICE-RIPPLER - a maneuver that increases the showiness of the upper body, used by strip-teasers to call attention to their bosom without showing any more

BODICE-TIPPER - customer who stuffs a $20-dollar-bill in a lap-dancer's bra