as in sex worker
a woman who engages in sexual activities for money
the streetwalkers and adult movie theaters that once populated the tenderloin have been replaced by upscale shoppers and expensive restaurants and boutiques
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Also, Angel is a streetwalker who develops feelings for a new client, Stan, who has a loving wife, Patty.
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Toby Grey, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022
Roberts’ charm, vulnerability and beauty made the Cinderella story of a New York billionaire falling instantly in love with a Hollywood streetwalker seem somehow plausible on film.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2022
A week later, on Oct. 21, another streetwalker, Matilda Clover, was found in her room screaming in pain and wracked by seizures.
—Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
The story begins with boys throwing rocks at one another and leering when one draws blood; its hallucinatory climax takes the title character on a streetwalker’s trip through Manhattan, with the face of one potential customer after another swimming up before her.
—Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2021
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Toby Grey, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022
Roberts’ charm, vulnerability and beauty made the Cinderella story of a New York billionaire falling instantly in love with a Hollywood streetwalker seem somehow plausible on film.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2022
A week later, on Oct. 21, another streetwalker, Matilda Clover, was found in her room screaming in pain and wracked by seizures.
—Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
The story begins with boys throwing rocks at one another and leering when one draws blood; its hallucinatory climax takes the title character on a streetwalker’s trip through Manhattan, with the face of one potential customer after another swimming up before her.
—Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for streetwalker
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Under colonial rule hijras were accused of acting as male prostitutes and of kidnapping and castrating children to grow their community.—
Charles Preston,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
28 May 2026
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Since 1971, Robert Hansen, an unassuming 44-year-old Anchorage bakery owner and married father of two, had been abducting dancers and prostitutes, flying them to the backcountry on his Piper Super Cub plane and then releasing them and—armed with a gun and hunting knife—stalking them like wild prey.—
Johnny Dodd,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026
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This kind of inclusivity would explain Glenn Close‘s appearance — as a visiting literary scholar — at just the right moment, as well as Penélope Cruz’s showstopping cameo as Nené, a singer-slash-hooker who schools Sebastián on the then-nascent form of the modern transgender movement.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
22 May 2026
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Bemis, sold by her family in China and sent to America, worked as a domestic, not as a hooker.—
Sandra Dallas,
Denver Post,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Streetwalker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/streetwalker. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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