Definition of Streetwalker

1. Noun. A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets.


Definition of Streetwalker

1. n. A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers.

Definition of Streetwalker

1. Noun. (rare) Someone walking in the street; an average citizen. ¹

2. Noun. A prostitute who looks for customers on the streets and in other public places. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Streetwalker

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Streetwalker

streetlighting
streetlights
streetlike
streetlit
streetmap
streetmaps
streets
streetscape
streetscapes
streetseller
streetsellers
streetsful
streetside
streetsmart
streetwalk
streetwalkers
streetwalkings
streetward
streetwear
streetwise
streetworthy
streety
streight
streighten
streights
streigne
streigned
streignes

Literary usage of Streetwalker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"... with no visible or known means of a fair, honorable, and reputable livelihood, was a streetwalker, who loitered around saloons and did no work. ..."

2. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"As streetwalker, Vivian/Roberts had been the object of the looks both of the camera and of Edward as he drove up Sunset Boulevard. ..."

3. Europe After 8: 15 by Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, Willard Huntington Wright (1914)
"A streetwalker. Another. Another. In the subway entrance across the street, a blind man is selling papers. A " dip " calls a friendly " Hello, ..."

4. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. by James Boswell, Arnold Glover (1901)
"Mr. Levet has married a streetwalker. But the gazette of my narration must now arrive to tell you, that Bathurst went physician to the army, and died at the ..."

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