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WOMAN OF THE STREET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does woman of the street mean?
• WOMAN OF THE STREET (noun)
The noun WOMAN OF THE STREET has 1 sense:
1. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
Familiarity information: WOMAN OF THE STREET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bawd; cocotte; cyprian; fancy woman; harlot; lady of pleasure; prostitute; sporting lady; tart; whore; woman of the street; working girl
Hypernyms ("woman of the street" is a kind of...):
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woman of the street"):
call girl (a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone)
camp follower (a prostitute who provides service to military personnel)
comfort woman; ianfu (a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II)
demimondaine (a female prostitute)
floozie; floozy; hooker; hustler; slattern; street girl; streetwalker (a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets)
white slave (a woman sold into prostitution)
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