street girl
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- noun
- /strit gɜrl/
- NSFW
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prostituta
- The documentary highlighted the struggles of a street girl trying to escape her life on the pavement.
Examples
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Street kids have problems other than drug abuse, and the hazards facing street girls make helping them particularly challenging.
Academic text (1995) -
We figured we'll get one of our street girls to just pull it off, she'll be the lure.
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You were just a back street girl
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She's a street girl and he spies on her.
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But it is also due to the fact that the number of street girls has increased sharply only in the last decade, as economic opportunities for girls decrease even further and overall poverty is on the rise.
Academic text (1995) -
I once observed an encounter between a well-dressed middle-aged man and a young, dirty street girl.
Academic text (2009) -
Dounia adds that Luzhin told her Rodya gave away their money to a street girl, pretending it was for funeral expenses.
Fiction book (1998) -
I saw a young street girl standing on the corner, hoping for a customer late at night.
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Many stories focus on the dangers faced by a street girl as she navigates the city at night.
Synonyms
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9.0
A person who sells sex for money, often on the street
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9.3
A person who offers sex for money on the street
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8.6
A woman who sells sex for money
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8.9
A person who offers sex for money on the street
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9.2
A woman who sells sex for money
A woman who works as a prostitute
A woman who has sex for money or who lives on the streets
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'street' (location/associated with the street) and 'girl' (female), so a learner can infer a female associated with the street (e.g., someone who spends time or works there). However, the specific occupational sense 'prostitute who solicits customers by walking the streets' is an idiomatic extension of that locative relation and is not fully predictable without exposure, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
The phrase street girl comes from a simple image: a woman on the street who stands or walks to find customers, so street and girl show where she works. That's why it means 'a prostitute who asks for customers on the street'.