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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Police and the media classified Gacy’s victims as male prostitutes and homosexuals, using that as an excuse to marginalize and blame them.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Oct. 2025 -
Joining him were Picardo’s bank teller Ben, Ellen Greene’s prostitute Belle, and Richard Lewis’ ex-doctor Phil, a role originally pegged for Rick Moranis that would’ve reunited Candy with his former SCTV colleague once more.—
Simon Bland,
IndieWire,
8 Oct. 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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“Sex worker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sex%20worker. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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