turn a trick

Idioms  

1. Engage in sex for pay, as in A young prostitute may turn a dozen tricks in a few hours. This idiom uses trick in the sense of “a sexual act.” [Slang; mid-1900s]

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turn a trick

In one of Lopez’s signature pivots, the arch banter transitions to something darkly moving: what Leo wants is not to turn a trick but to take a shower and do laundry.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 2, 2019

Last week Wildman Little did turn a trick.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You done right to come to the mission after me, for I’d ride to the gatepost of hell to turn a trick agin Saul Chadron!”

From The Rustler of Wind River by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

We'll show 'm we ain't so old 'n' tender we cain't turn a trick t'bug their dang eyes out?

From The Heritage of the Sioux by B. M. Bower

"There, I'd like to see you turn a trick like that, Billy Conley," he shouted.

From The Circus Boys on the Plains : or, the Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show by Edgar B. P. Darlington