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Playboy Bunny
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English
2018 December 1
Pronunciation
en /ˈpleɪbɔɪ ˈbʌni/ RP
en /ˈpleɪˌbɔɪ ˈbʌni/ /ˈpleɪˌbɔɪ ˈbəni/ GA
en en-au-Playboy Bunny.ogg AU
en Play boy Bun ny
Noun
Playboy Bunny
thumb|Playboy Bunnies Waren Smith, Tiki Owens, and Liz James from the New York Playboy Club visiting the USS Wainwright around 1971
A waitress at a Playboy Club, characteristically dressed in a strapless teddy, black pantyhose, cuffs, a collar and bowtie, bunny ears, and a short, fluffy tail.
en w:Linda Wolfe Luce Women [review of Jack Olsen, The Girls in the Office (1972)] Clay S[chuette] Felker New York New York, N.Y. New York Magazine Company 31 July 1972 2 14 55 https://books.google.com/books?id=vOYCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA55 3 0028-7369 1002002954 As a result, the fifteen women blur, dissolve into one—a big Playboy bunny, masochist to the tip of her Pucci tail, hopping from one key sexual event to another so that life itself seems unlived.
en Former Fifth Dimension has Dream Come True: Night as a Playboy Bunny John H[arold] Johnson Jet Chicago, Ill. w:Johnson Publishing Company 3 April 1980 58 3 61 https://books.google.com/books?id=87YDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA61 0021-5996 671797918 Terri Bryant, a former member of the singing group, The Fifth Dimension, always wondered what it would be like to be a Playboy Bunny hostess when she performed with that popular singing group at the Playboy Clubs in Lake Geneva, Wis., and Great Gorge, N.J. Ms. Bryant had her dream come true at the Playboy Club in Chicago.
en Jessica Ringrose Are You Sexy, Flirty, or a Slut?: Exploring ‘Sexualization’ and How Teen Girls Perform/Negotiate Digital Sexual Identity on Social Networking Sites Rosalind Gill; Christina Scharff New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity New York, N.Y. w:Palgrave Macmillan 2011 part II (Negotiating Postfeminist Media Culture) 108 https://books.google.com/books?id=WkeEDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108 10.1057/9780230294523 978-0-230-22334-9 The Playboy bunny symbol is widely used throughout the Bebo network in both skins and other applications. Marie's extensive use of the Playboy bunny merchandise both off and online, indicates the normalization, banality even, of the Playboy bunny, marketed at teen and tween girls, illustrating the trend towards 'porno-chic' for these age groups.
en 2012 David Farber The Sixties: From Memory to History 247 https://books.google.com/books?id=sGRN6JHa6vwC&pg=PA247 By the mid-1960s Hefner had amassed a fortune of $100 million, including a lasciviously appointed forty-eight-room mansion staffed by thirty Playboy "bunnies" ("fuck like bunnies" is a phrase we have largely left behind, but most people at the time caught the allusion).
en Frank Javier Garcia Berumen The 1970s Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and Films since the 1960s Jefferson, N.C. w:McFarland & Company 2014 102 https://books.google.com/books?id=6OpZBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA102 978-0-7864-7432-5 She [Maria Richwine] studied dancing and for a while worked as a Playboy Bunny. While visiting England she decided to become an actress.
en Carmen M. Cusak Bestiality in Art and Culture Animals, Deviance, and Sex Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2015 62–63 https://books.google.com/books?id=Tp7WCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA63 978-1-4438-8076-3 Female waitresses, called "Playboy Bunnies," wore bushy cotton tails, rabbit ears, and bowties. Playboy Bunnies are not sex workers; however, anecdotal evidence demonstrates that some have been paid for their time during which they voluntarily performed sexual favors for guests at Playboy's lounge and mansion. Playboy Bunnies may be photographed for Playboy; and several Playboy Playmates have dressed in Playboy Bunny costumes while appearing in magazine editorials.
Alternative forms
en Playboy bunny
Translations
waitress at a Playboy Club
Arabic: ar فَتَاة الأَرْنَب f
Bengali: bn প্লেবয় বানি
Catalan: ca conilleta de Playboy m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 兔女郎 tùnǚláng
Finnish: fi Playboy-pupu
Hebrew: he שפנפנת פלייבוי
Hindi: hi ख़रगोश लड़की f, hi प्लेबॉय बनी f
Japanese: ja バニーガール banī gāru
Korean: ko 바니걸
Portuguese: pt Coelhinha f
Serbo-Croatian: sh Playboyeva zečica f, sh Plejbojeva zečica f
Spanish: es conejita de Playboy f
Thai: th เพลย์บอย บันนี
See also
en bunny girl
Further reading
en Female Occupations