streetwalker

American  

[street-waw-ker] / ˈstritˌwɔ kər /

noun

1. a prostitute who solicits on the streets.

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streetwalker British  

/ ˈstriːtˌwɔːkə /

noun

1. a prostitute who solicits on the streets

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Other Word Forms

• streetwalking noun

Etymology

Origin of streetwalker

First recorded in 1585–95; street + walker

Example Sentences

A wealthy man with multiple well-appointed homes in glamorous cities, and also a bedraggled streetwalker who compulsively picks up roadside garbage by the bagful.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2021

He updates Gary’s story, whose heroine is a Holocaust survivor turned streetwalker turned children’s caretaker, intelligently and resourcefully.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2020

She won Joseph Jefferson Awards — the city’s premier theater honor — in plays such as Lanford Wilson’s “Balm in Gilead,” portraying a streetwalker, and Lynn Siefert’s “Coyote Ugly,” as an ill-fortuned young wife.

From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2017

And then there are the women, who have the most thankless parts, and include Ms. Taylor as the mother of Hildy’s fiancée and Ms. Scott as the streetwalker who has befriended the condemned man.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2016

There was no interesting toil to relieve their unhappy lot, and no distinction was made of the insane, the law-breaking criminal, and the wretched streetwalker or demimondaine.

From Orphans of the Storm by MacMahon, Henry