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🙏 To ask for 💋 To offer sex ⚠️ To urge wrongdoing
to solicit

to solicit

13 8.7
To offer sexual services to someone, often in a public place
  • verb
  • /səˈlɪsɪt/
  • NSFW
translation icon : solicitar servicios sexuales
  • - Look, I didn't solicit any sex, okay?

There's this YouTube that I never heard of, Austin Jones, that was guilty of soliciting nudes.

Examples

  • You are charged with soliciting prostitution... at 14th and east street.

    All the President's Men (1976)

  • She was soliciting money from men on the streets.

    Nothing Like The Sun (2018)

  • You were soliciting in our building.

    The Florida Project (2017)

  • Additionally, the far reach of social media has changed the way prostitutes solicit business.

    Academic text (2012)

  • If I were soliciting someone for sex at work, obviously that's a problem whether I'm gay or straight.

    Blog text (3)

  • When I discovered that he was enrolled in numerous sexy websites soliciting sex, I was devastated.

    Blog text (19)

  • - You're under arrest on suspicion of soliciting and prostitution.

    Caged Heat (1974)

  • But she's been spotted a couple of times soliciting in Uptown, mostly old guys, but a couple of times young ones who were pretty affronted.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The police arrested him for attempting to solicit sex from a stranger in the park.

  • She was charged with soliciting sexual favors from men while working as a waitress.

Synonyms

to hit on
vsto solicit
  • NSFW
154 7.8

Try to show romantic or sexual interest in someone by making advances

is often more about public or service offers rather than casual flirting
to pick up
vsto solicit
  • NSFW
126 8.2

To meet someone to start a romantic or sexual relationship

focuses more on offering sexual services or public approaches rather than meeting
to seduce
vsto solicit
  • NSFW
99 6.5

Persuade someone to have sex by charming or tempting them

is more about an offer or public approach than private persuasion
to hook
vsto solicit
  • NSFW
36 9.2

To offer sexual services to someone in public for money

is used for both offers of services and sexual advances often publicly
to proposition
vsto solicit
  • Offensive
10 8.5

To offer sex to someone in a direct way

is broader covering offers and public approaches not only proposals
to streetwalking
vsto solicit
  • NSFW
9.9

To ask people on the street to pay for sex

is more general and covers public advances beyond customer seeking
to chase poontang
vsto solicit
  • Offensive
9.9

To try to have sex with many different people

is less formal and more vulgar than an offer or public approach

How Direct

to proposition
  • Offensive
10 8.5
to solicit
  • NSFW
13 8.7
to chat up
  • NSFW
4 7.8
to flirt
267 3.1

Surface Forms

solicit infinitive
solicited past
solicited past participle
soliciting present participle
solicits third person singular

Etymology

Solicit can also mean to offer sexual services or to ask for clients in public, a sense that grew from Latin sollicitare 'to urge'. That's why to try to solicit on the street is understood as urgently asking or pushing someone to accept such an offer.