video ho

English

Etymology

From video (“music video”) +‎ ho (“whore”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

video ho (plural video hos or video hoes)

1. (slang) One of the attractive, highly sexualized female dancers or actresses, typically black, who commonly appear in hip-hop music videos.
   • 1991, Havelock Nelson, Michael A. Gonzales, Bring the Noise: a Guide to Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture, Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 162:

     Already Queen Latifah was going for hers in this male-dominated world of video ho's^[sic] and fantasy B-gals.

   • 1997 August, Greg Tate, “Soul Sister Number One”, in Vibe‎^[1], volume 5, number 6, page 82:

     Just 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.

   • 2009, Tracie Howard, Friends & Fauxs‎^[2], Random House, Inc., →ISBN, page 129:

     The only difference between Imelda and a video ho was the stripper pole.