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  • noun Plural form of streetwalker.

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Examples

  • ... reminds us that sexual congress with nameless streetwalkers is not necessarily the stuff of romance and is not necessarily without its consequences.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • ... reminds us that sexual congress with nameless streetwalkers is not necessarily the stuff of romance and is not necessarily without its consequences.

    If a book meets a book coming through the rye Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • It is a good day when the former defeater of South Pasadena Carpetbagger Victor Griego, who was overwhelmed by numerous ACORN "streetwalkers", with help from some bad "cut and pasting" by his own campaign staff, who went the "ARRRT SNNNYDER Route" and last was seen pimping "extreme cholo makeovers", get a chance for a new gig on the public dime.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • After visiting New York in 1794, the Frenchman Moreau de St. Mery wrote, “Whole sections of streets are given over to streetwalkers for the plying of their profession.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Most ironically, the makeup, clothing, and hairstyles of prostitutes, which were maligned for their overt sexuality lipstick was “the scarlet shame of streetwalkers”, became widely fashionable among American women and are now so respectable that even First Ladies wear them.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • In the 1790s, when streetwalkers “flooded the streets and bawdy houses appeared in every neighborhood,” on average fewer than two women were arrested for prostitution per month.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • I began eavesdropping on loud-talking, cell-phone-using, streetwalkers, to try to answer the question, "What are all these people talking about?"

    Marc Philippe Eskenazi: Eavesdropping on New York Cell Phone Conversations Marc Philippe Eskenazi 2011

  • I began eavesdropping on loud-talking, cell-phone-using, streetwalkers, to try to answer the question, "What are all these people talking about?"

    Marc Philippe Eskenazi: Eavesdropping on New York Cell Phone Conversations Marc Philippe Eskenazi 2011

  • I began eavesdropping on loud-talking, cell-phone-using, streetwalkers, to try to answer the question, "What are all these people talking about?"

    Marc Philippe Eskenazi: Eavesdropping on New York Cell Phone Conversations Marc Philippe Eskenazi 2011

  • As buffoonish cops circle ill-advisedly, time ticks away for the flesh-eating family, which suddenly must figure out how to fetch its own meals, putting everyone at odds and a posse of streetwalkers — the default prey — on red alert.

    Chewing on Love and Loss Steve Dollar 2011

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