working girl n.
1. (US, also working broad, ...chick, ...lady, ...woman) a prostitute [broad n.2 (2)/chick n.1 (3)].
‘Kitchen Mechanic Blues’ lyrics] Women [...] talk about me, they lies on, calls me out of my name; / All their men come to see me just the same. / I’m just a working gal, poor working gal. | ||
Georgie May 236: Might be a working-girl. | ||
Sister of the Road (1975) 198: ‘Call Girls’ (Working girls who take pay for the pleasure they give and are subject to telephone calls by hotel keepers and others). | ||
USA Confidential 163: She had a fine stable of working-girls who went to hotel rooms for fifty bucks a throw. | ||
Who Live In Shadow (1960) 16: Where did he get that suit? Oh, from a working chick, you know, a working chick. | ||
Goodbye to The Hill (1966) 155: I’m a working girl, love. Ten shillings to you. | ||
‘Sl. of Watts’ in Current Sl. III:2 51: Working broad, n. A prostitute. | ||
Black Players 40: male-female encounters In addition to hos, ladies, and bitches, women are also called working broads. | ||
Collura (1978) 143: Collura recognized them immediately as ‘working chicks’ – call girls. | ||
(con. WWII) Hollywoodland (1981) 78: Don’t be a palooka. Give a working girl a break. | ||
Lily on the Dustbin 41: ‘Working women’ or ‘women in the trade’ (prostitutes) have a deep scorn for charity molls [...] because they delude themselves and are not prepared to admit they are just as ‘bad’ as a harlot. | ||
in Sex Work (1988) 160: Norman knew a working girl named Linda. | ||
Homeboy 7: Most working girls were like that, their noses open wider than their cunts. | ||
Vinnie Got Blown Away 137: Shelley was a working girl up King’s Cross these days could earn a few. | ||
NZEJ 13 37: working girl n. A prostitute. | ‘Boob Jargon’ in||
Indep. on Sun. 30 Jan. 15: A £20,000 grant from the Memorial Fund will be used to pay the college fees of five ‘working girls’. | ||
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 204/1: working girl n. a prostitute. | ||
Chopper 4 107: Every now and then you will find a working girl who not only sits on a goldmine, but has a heart of gold as well. | ||
Rubdown [ebook] A motley band of working ladies, nightclubbers and trannies congregated under an oak tree. | ||
Thrill City [ebook] ‘Back on the game?‘ [...] ‘Stripping isn’t prostitution — not that there’s anything wrong with being a working lady’. | ||
What It Was 44: A young working woman [...] stood outside a room in a sheer slip. | (con. 1972)||
Last Whisper in the Dark 56: I still didn’t understand [...] why she was interested in playing the role of a semiprostitute [...] or if it was all a sex game. | ||
Glorious Heresies 37: [They] looked working girls up and down the way you would a horse at a town fair. | ||
Blacktop Wasteland 137: They had even picked up some women who turned out to be working girls [...] Ronnie [...] snorted coke off the sexiest hooker’s ass. | ||
May God Forgive 61: ‘If she was a working girl, maybe she went with a punter in a car?’. |
2. an effeminate male prostitute.
Queens’ Vernacular. | ||
Maledicta IX 144: The effeminate ones (working girls) may drop a hairpin in conversation or otherwise advertise availability; this is called posting flyers. | ||
At Home on the Stroll 20: ‘Working girl’ (or boy). |