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streetwalker

[street-waw-ker]
noun
  1. a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
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Origin of streetwalker

First recorded in 1585–95; street + walker
Related formsstreet·walk·ing, noun
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Examples from the Web for street-walker

Historical Examples

  • If she wants to be a street-walker, let her be one, but she shall not stay here.

    Jennie Gerhardt

    Theodore Dreiser

  • Light in the vagabond, light in the mendicant, light in the thief, light in the street-walker.

  • The Madonna of thy landing is a street-walker who is not worth two candles!

    Venice

    Dorothy Menpes

  • She was a street-walker, nicknamed by her admirers the She-wolf.

    The Death of the Gods

    Dmitri Mrejkowski

  • The second criminal was a poor woman, who was taken up by the watch as a street-walker.

    Amelia

    Henry Fielding

British Dictionary definitions for street-walker

streetwalker

noun
  1. a prostitute who solicits on the streets
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Derived Formsstreetwalking, noun, adjective
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Word Origin and History for street-walker

n.

"common prostitute," 1590s, from street (n.) + agent noun from walk (v.).

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