Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US black) having sex for money; also as adj.

1934		J.L. Kuethe ‘Prison Parlance’ in AS IX:1 28: tricking broad. A prostitute.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 243: tricking broad A prostitute.
1960		C. Cooper Jr Scene (1996) 237: Where’d you get all the money? [...] Don’t tell me you made it all tricking.
1979		E. Torres After Hours 24: He wants me trickin’ on Eighth Avenue.
1981		A.K. Shulman On the Stroll 132: Tricking was like Indian wrestling — seeing whose contempt was stronger: his toward her for selling it, hers toward him for buying it.
1991		W.T. Vollmann Whores for Gloria 54: The first time she went out tricking she wasn’t nervous.
1997		E. Little Another Day in Paradise 8: Knowing she’ll end up tricking or boosting if I don’t make a score soon.