pervert's row

noun

The first row of seats next to the stage at a strip club.

Meanings

pervert's row1

noun

alternative Pervert's Row

  1. The first row of seats next to the stage at a strip club.

    We'd sit along pervert's row, laughing and hooting, superior in our youth and wide-open future and potential to do great things.

    2006, Craig Davidson, Rust and Bone, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    Not that he's scared, but he is starting to feel like one of those guys that comes in and grabs a chair next to the stage, on pervert's row as the locals know it, and sits there for hours, lurking and staring at the dancers while nursing one or two beers without tipping any of the girls.

    2012, Miles Lawrence, Keeping Score, →ISBN, page 14

    Our eyes adjusted to the black light themed interior as we plunked ourselves down on the front row, where there was a short countertop hanging about six inghes below the top of the peninsula-shaped runway stage. A location universally referred to in the titty bar circles as pervert's row. We had long since gotten over any shyness or embarrassment with the pervert's row stigma of strip club seating.

    2013, David S. Henderson, The Worth of Things

Pervert's Row2

noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of pervert's row.

    He didn't sit on Pervert's Row where we were. He just sat at the bar by the back and yelled, Do it again! Do it again!'

    1992, Pete Davies, Storm Country: A Journey to the Heart of America, page 21
    2 more examples

    Reggie was getting up from his perch on Pervert's Row for a trip to the loo just as the lanky yob seated next to him shouted out, "Oh, look she's having a picnic. Hey, baby, is it all-you- can eat?"

    1995, Tim Dugdale, I Couldn't Care Less: A Novel

    Several blocks north of the police department, Patrick O'Brien sat in the basement of a decaying hotel, in the back of the nightclub at the end of the runway/bar, Pervert's Row.

    2001, Gary Lovett, Season of Death, →ISBN, page 4
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