Idiom
working girl
Meaning
A female prostitute.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The film is about a working girl trying to leave the streets.”
“She told the police she was a working girl to explain why she was on that corner at midnight.”
“In the gritty novel, the protagonist, a working girl with a troubled past, dreams of escaping to a quieter life far from the city.”
Examples
simple
“The film is about a working girl trying to leave the streets.”
contextual
“She told the police she was a working girl to explain why she was on that corner at midnight.”
complex
“In the gritty novel, the protagonist, a working girl with a troubled past, dreams of escaping to a quieter life far from the city.”
Origin
From *working* + *girl*. The term is first recorded c. 1620, appearing in the published works of the translator Thomas Shelton.
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