/koohch/ , n.
a sinuous, quasi-Oriental dance performed by a woman and characterized chiefly by suggestive gyrating and shaking of the body.
Also, cootch . Also called cooch dance, hootchy-kootchy, coochie-coochie /kooh"chee kooh"chee/ .
[ 1940-45; appar. short for HOOTCHY-KOOTCHY ]