as in prostitutes
a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman
"Grandma, you hussy!" joked the girl when her grandmother admitted kissing on her first date
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Noun
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Prosecutors have insisted, however, that Diddy wasn’t paying prostitutes just to make blue movies in their own court filings.—
Victoria Bekiempis,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025 -
This happened years after Epstein was convicted of felony solicitation of prostitutes and procuring persons under 18 for prostitution.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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At one point during Knox’s meeting with Mignini, Knox’s mother hears sirens from far away and begins to panic — thinking police are on their way to arrest Knox again.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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Constant police sirens blared throughout the maze.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Help, of course, isn’t coming—not over the Indian Ocean, not in the nursing home, not on the tramps’ moonlit road.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
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Once per act, a second duo crashes in on Didi and Gogo, providing the tramps’ power balance with a lurid, distended foil.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Hussies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hussies. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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