call girl
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7.9
- noun
- /kɔl ɡɜrl/
- NSFW
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prostituta
- A call girl arranges her appointments through phone calls and online messaging.
Willa is essentially a call girl and that person becomes his girlfriend.
- Willa is essentially a call girl and that person becomes his girlfriend.
- She's essentially revealed to be a call girl.
Examples
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Two hours alone in a room with an undergraduate call girl.
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I was the top call girl in Vegas.
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Oh I am a call girl
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I work as a call girl.
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What if you decided to become a call girl?
Blog text (33) -
She was a call girl.
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Willa is essentially a call girl and that person becomes his girlfriend.
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Nicole, a call girl from London, travels to Sydney, Australia, in the hope she will break her heroin habit.
Blog text (20) -
Pam quits her job as a call girl briefly after setting aside a nest egg.
Academic text (1990) -
Even at four p.m., the bar at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel is crowded with an international mix of people bartering for goods and services, including a pair of young call girls doing business with some well-tailored Japanese.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
478
9.3
An offensive word for a person who has sex for money
342
4.2
A person who has sex with other people for money
8
8.6
A woman who sells sex for money
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8.6
A woman who sells sex for money
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9.2
A woman who sells sex for money
How High-Class
- NSFW
13
9.9
- Offensive
- NSFW
23
7.9
- NSFW
342
4.2
- NSFW
8
8.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound transparently combines 'call' (to phone) and 'girl' (a woman), so a learner could infer it denotes a woman who is contacted by phone. However, the specialised occupational/sexual sense (a woman paid to have sex who arranges meetings by phone) is culturally specific and not fully predictable from the constituents, making the phrase only partially transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Call girl comes from the idea that the word call means being 'called' to a client's home or to meet after a phone 'call', and girl is the woman who goes to the appointment. Because these women were called to appointments instead of working on the street, call girl came to mean 'a woman paid to have sex who arranges meetings by phone or online'.