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

I'm with the Red-coats, an' if I can turn a trick fer that side I'm a-goin' ter do it.

From My Lady of Doubt by Kimball, Alonzo

"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 Darlington, Edgar B. P.

Any fellow who could turn a trick like that, and who has so much clean-cut courage, must be worth looking after.

From The Orphan by Mulford, Clarence E.