单词 | to walk the street |
释义 | > as lemmasto walk the street(s) P3. to walk the street(s): to go about on foot in a town, to roam at large in the streets; spec. (with reference to prostitutes) = to be (also to go) on (or †upon) the street(s) at Phrases 4b (cf. streetwalker n. 2, streetwalking n.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > in the streets to beat the streetsc1375 to walk the street(s)1530 vicambulate1873 society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > expose or offer for sale > solicit custom for > by travelling to business area to walk the street(s)1530 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (intransitive)] > practise prostitution to walk the street(s)1530 to play the harlot (formerly also harlots)1535 whore1547 strumpc1550 strumpet1627 prostitute1631 to be (also to go) on (or upon) the street(s)1754 hustle1930 ho1972 tom1981 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 770/2 In dede you walke the stretes. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 1112 Certein companions which doe nothing but walke the streets. 1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. K3v Each swaggering Ruffin now that walk's the streetes, Proud as Lucifer, stabbeth whom he meetes. 1709 T. Hearne in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) I. 193 There has been a person in Oxford, who saw her walk the street since this amazing accident. 1714 E. Budgell tr. Theophrastus Moral Characters xxiv. 69 When he walks the Streets, he never Condescends to look about him, or to know any one he meets. 1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) i. 230 While all your smutty sisters walk the streets. 1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting i. ii. 54 How likely is it, that..you would be deserted by those base wretches your seducers! You know I have often wept,..lest you should come to walk London Streets. 1824 Lancet 12 June 335/2 The unfortunate female will also tell you that she continued to walk the streets, night after night. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table viii. 225 When a lady walks the streets..she knows well enough that the street is a picture-gallery, where pretty faces..are meant to be seen, and everybody has a right to see them. 1891 E. B. Clark Twelve Months Peru iii. 55 It is considered highly improper for a Limeña, either married or single, to walk the streets alone. 1908 S. E. White Riverman xvii The remainder of the time he spent walking the streets and reading in the club rooms. 1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 236 Many of the younger prostitutes who walk the streets of Paddington and Notting Hill are under their control. 1998 P. Gourevitch We wish to inform You xvi. 245 There are many more killers still walking the streets than we have in prison. < as lemmas |
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