peep show

noun

: an entertainment (such as a film) or object (such as a small picture) that is viewed through a small opening or a magnifying glass and is usually sexually explicit

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web That effect is enhanced by Arnulfo Maldonado’s set design, in which a glamorous Austrian curtain encircles the dingy room and a turntable suggests a never-ending peep show. —

Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022 Four distinct sets were built, and 14 women worked in the warehouse, and they were broadcast online in what is compared to a grainy, online peep show. —

Evan Romano, Men's Health, 9 Mar. 2022 Camming sites host live streams of models, usually with a chatroom feature, much like a digital peep show. —

The Economist, 10 Jan. 2020 Showgirl Video was believed to be the last place in Las Vegas with a peep show – a place where dancers perform behind a window, which opened when a patron placed $1 into a machine, for tips. —

USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2019 Nevada Las Vegas: An adult video and bookstore that operated the Las Vegas area’s lone peep show has closed, marking the end of an era. —

USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2019 If 19th- and early 20th-century titillation is more your speed, Musée Mecanique has a handful of peep shows, too. —

Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2018 Stan is merely the sad sack who can’t stay away, shakily throwing coins into the peep show machine to see her once again. —

refinery29.com, 11 June 2018 Or the vintage peep shows (!) in the downstairs restrooms. —

Michael Klein, Philly.com, 23 May 2018 See More

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