Cock tease

[...] tease (sometimes [...]-tease or cocktease) is derisive [...] slang used to describe a person, usually a female (but sometimes a gay male), who is perceived to act in a [...] manner to seduce, without actually fulfilling the expected [...] actions. The term has been in use in Great Britain and the United States since the 1800s. [...] tease and prick tease are synonyms.

The phrase is also used metaphorically, as an allusion to any similarly frustrating teasing done by someone else.

Gender role and stereotype

The term is an indication of the internationally stereotyped 20th century male and female [...] attitudes and gender roles. The term is relevant to the cultural attitudes towards [...] harassment and date [...].

Uses in media

The term has been widely used in popular culture.

Literal sense

• Saturday Night Fever:
  "Tony Manero: 'Why are you such a [...]-tease?'
  Stephanie: 'Don't you call me no goddam [...]-tease!'"1, also 2
• Sophie's Choice by William Styron
  "Little Miss [...] Tease" (p. 145)
• Review of American Beauty in Rolling Stone
  "Angela seeks validation that she's not "ordinary" by playing the [...] tease..."
• "Cocktease" is the 4th track on the 2002 album Hate Made Me by 8 Foot Sativa

Metaphor

• "This film will come off as one extended [...]-tease, never giving them the very thing trailers made them think they’d be getting." (Review of The Ringer)
• "The Bird Flu Is A [...]-Tease" and "UPDATE: Bird Flu Still a [...]-Tease!" (essays on avian flu, using [...] as a double entendre meaning male bird and penis)