sex worker
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sex worker
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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Some messages call her a sex worker or allege intimate relationships with people she has never even met, while others passionately declare his love for her.
From BBC
Ms Caldwell had been a sex worker in Glasgow's red-light district when she disappeared on 4 April 2005.
From BBC
Vicky Hernández, an HIV-positive sex worker, was shot in the head with a single bullet on the night of the coup, when a curfew was in place and only military and police were allowed outdoors.
From BBC
Since her breakout role in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," Leigh has commanded viewers' attention with the characters she plays, from Tralala, the sex worker in "Last Exit to Brooklyn," and Hedra Carlson, the roommate from hell in "Single White Female," to her Dorothy Parker in "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" and her Oscar-nominated turn in "The Hateful Eight."
From Salon
Additional zest is brought to the proceedings by Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, as Mathilde’s sensitive boyfriend, and Gustav Lindh, who plays a gentle Ukrainian sex worker found, half naked and bound, at the scene of Markus’s first crime.
From Washington Post
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