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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Example Sentences

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

"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.

“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 Ogden, George W. (George Washington)

If they're like the average run of men that turn a trick of that kind, they'll give themselves away in the long run.

From Raw Gold A Novel by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)