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💃 Related to prostitution 🌃 Prostitution act 🚶 To seek clients 🧑‍🦯 Walking for fun
to streetwalking

to streetwalking

9.9
To ask people on the street to pay for sex
  • verb
  • /ˈstritˌwɔkɪŋ/
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translation icon : prostituirse en la calle
  • She streetwalks every Friday night.

Examples

  • Don't streetwalk in that neighborhood!

  • She was accused of streetwalking after being seen approaching cars on Main Street.

  • The police arrested several women for streetwalking in the city center last night.

  • Laws against streetwalking are strictly enforced in that neighborhood.

  • The police arrested several women for streetwalking in the city center last night.

  • She was accused of streetwalking after being seen approaching cars on Main Street.

  • Laws against streetwalking are strictly enforced in that neighborhood.

Synonyms

to solicit
vsto streetwalking
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13 8.7

To offer sexual services to someone, often in a public place

is limited to doing this specifically by walking in public streets
to street-walk
vsto streetwalking
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1 9.9

To walk the streets to find people who will pay for sex

is the same action expressed as a continuous noun form
to streetwalk
vsto streetwalking
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9.9

To walk the streets offering sex for money

is the same action expressed as a continuous noun form
to sell one's body
vsto streetwalking
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9.9

To have sex with someone for money

focuses on the specific act of seeking customers by walking streets

Surface Forms

streetwalking infinitive
streetwalked past
streetwalked past participle
streetwalking present participle
streetwalks third person singular

Morphology

streetwalking = street + walk (opaque) = street + walk

The verb form 'streetwalk' has a specialized meaning related to prostitution, which is not transparent from its components.

Etymology

Streetwalking comes from the parts street ('public road') and walking ('moving on foot'), meaning to walk the streets to find customers for prostitution. So as a verb, streetwalking means to do that action.