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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
streetwalker
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even in the snow on Christmas Eve the streetwalkers were out.
▪ His parishioners had grumbled that streetwalkers propositioned them after his sermons.
▪ In fact these girls are the lucky ones, they avoid being physically brutalised like the streetwalkers.
▪ She reminded Bowring of a streetwalker in some film, that image of a woman standing under a lamp surrounded by darkness.
▪ Since taking over as district attorney last year, he has vowed to vigorously prosecute anyone who violently preys on streetwalkers.
▪ You can get men to risk disease, robbery, and self-loathing sleeping with a streetwalker.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Streetwalker

Streetwalker \Street"walk`er\, n. A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers.

Wiktionary
streetwalker

n. 1 (context now rare English) Someone walking in the street; an average citizen. 2 A prostitute who looks for customers on the streets and in other public places.

WordNet
streetwalker

n. a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets [syn: street girl, hooker, hustler, floozy, floozie, slattern]

Wikipedia
Streetwalker (film)

Streetwalker'' (Spanish:Trotacalles'') is a 1951 Mexican drama film directed by Matilde Landeta and starring Miroslava, Ernesto Alonso and Elda Peralta.

The film's sets were designed by Luis Moya.

Usage examples of "streetwalker".

Derelicts of all ages and runaways of both sexes were ideal prey, as were the painted streetwalkers who frequented the areas most favored by tourists.

Up in the Coombe with chummies and streetwalkers and then the rest of the year sober as a judge.

Even the one or two streetwalkers who worked this part of town had gone home.

Knowing this was not her area, and the girls already there might object strongly to competition, she continued on her way up Broadway to another area where the streetwalkers gathered.

You'll pay more tipping the bell captain to bring your escort in the back way than you would have paid for a whole night with one of the chased-away streetwalkers.

One, a young streetwalker, was deadgenuinely dead, having bled dry from tooth-holes in her neck.

I could, I thought, place every type: the nice girl who flirts, the nice girl who doesn't, the brazen out-and-out streetwalker I was warned against.

There were some dollymops, streetwalkers poaching custom, but the freelancers that thronged elsewhere in New Crobuzon were the outsiders here.

Some people they never touched -- such as madames of orderly houses of prostitution, operators of orderly gambling games, people connected with the numbers racket, streetwalkers who stayed in their district.

There was a plan afoot to zone off part of Leith, turn it into a safe area for streetwalkers.

Blokes remembered, on account of that poor streetwalker, Martha Tabram, 'oo got 'erself stabbed to death August Bank 'oliday, an' on account of it were so queer, seein' a woman in a patched dress and ragged bonnet, carryin' a gentleman in a fine suit wiv a shabby old coat wrapped round 'is head.

Blokes remembered, on account of that poor streetwalker, Martha Tabram, ‘oo got ‘erself stabbed to death August Bank ‘oliday, an’ on account of it were so queer, seein’ a woman in a patched dress and ragged bonnet, carryin’ a gentleman in a fine suit wiv a shabby old coat wrapped round ‘is head.

Blokes remembered, on account of that poor streetwalker, Martha Tabram, ’oo got ’erself stabbed to death August Bank ’oliday, an’ on account of it were so queer, seein’ a woman in a patched dress and ragged bonnet, carryin’ a gentleman in a fine suit wiv a shabby old coat wrapped round ’is head.