as in prostitute
a woman who engages in sexual activities for money
a group that serves as an advocate for the health and welfare of sex workers
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Noun
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The only things shaky about Relish are the junkies, prostitutes, suicidal depressives, and sinners who populate Osborne's songs.—
EW Staff Published,
EW.com,
14 Aug. 2025 -
Serial killer Lorenzo Jerome Gilyard was convicted in 2007 for killing six women in Kansas City but is believed to have raped and strangled two girls and 11 women, most of whom had worked as prostitutes, from 1977 to 1993.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Three other Scottish squad reinforcements -- lock Gregor Brown, hooker Ewan Ashman and prop Rory Sutherland -- were named on the bench.—
Nick Mulvenney,
Reuters,
21 July 2025
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Strip clubs, booze, hookers, blow, the whole nine yards.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Love Hotel chronicles the encounter of a call girl and a married man with a debt to the yakuza who have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2025
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Together with Min Seo-jin (Ha Yoon-kyung), an ambitious prosecutor, and Yoon Gil-ho (Ji Chang-wook), a broker and pimp who fiercely looks out for his call girls, Dong-woo starts to unravel a sinister scheme that seemingly implicates some of the city’s most high-profile figures.—
Regina Kim,
Forbes,
19 Nov. 2024
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