What is Selling Shovels?
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to strip or otherwise perform a sexual dance for monetary compensation
In reference to the viral internet story of a first grader's homework that appeared to show the child's mother pole-dancing for tips. The accompanying letter explains to the teacher that the drawing was in fact a deptiction of multiple customers fighting over the last snow shovel at her job at a home improvement store.
I saw Tracy selling shovels last night; I think she does it to pay for college.
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