| 单词 | prostitute |
| 释义 | prostitute (once / 816 pages) nv A prostitute is someone who gets paid to have sex — the word usually refers to a woman, but there are male prostitutes as well. These days a prostitute is often called a sex worker, and there are many slang words, such as hooker and whore, that mean the same thing. A prostitute works for a pimp and her customers are called johns. You could say a woman is prostituting herself, or that the pimp is prostituting her. Sometimes people who hate their jobs feel like they're prostituting themselves, even though no sex is involved. WORD FAMILYprostitute: prostituted, prostitutes, prostituting, prostitution+/prostitution: prostitutions USAGE EXAMPLESInfections from sexually transmitted diseases are skyrocketing from the arrival of so many Venezuelan prostitutes. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) Police say that the girl was a 16-year-old prostitute and the two women with her were allegedly involved in sex trafficking. Time(Dec 31, 2016) "New York was a lot more violent then and many Brazilian women were prostitutes, so there was this prejudice," says Malin. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) 1n a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money Syn|Hypo|Hyper bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl call girl a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone camp followera prostitute who provides service to military personnel comfort woman, ianfua woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II demimondainea woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalkera prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets white slavea woman sold into prostitution adult female, woman an adult female person (as opposed to a man) 2v sell one's body; exchange sex for money Hypo|Hyper street-walk, streetwalk walk the streets in search of customers sell exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent |
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