Meanings
plural video hos · plural video hoes
- slangOne of the attractive, highly sexualized female dancers or actresses, typically black, who commonly appear in hip-hop music videos.
The only difference between Imelda and a video ho was the stripper pole.
2009, Tracie Howard, Friends & Fauxs, Random House, Inc., →ISBN, page 1292 more examples
Already Queen Latifah was going for hers in this male-dominated world of video ho's^([sic]) and fantasy B-gals.
1991, Havelock Nelson, Michael A. Gonzales, Bring the Noise: a Guide to Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture, Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 162Just when we thought couldn't nobody be a black woman in pop music without being a provocative pop tart, a put-it-on-the-glass video ho, or a gold-digging hoochie mama, here comes Badu—on BET, no less, home of the superficial, land of the fake.
1997 August, Greg Tate, “Soul Sister Number One”, in Vibe, volume 5, number 6, page 82
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From video (“music video”) + ho (“whore”).
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