turn tricks
verb1
Slang To work as a prostitute, providing sexual services for money.
- By 1996, she was a hooker sleeping in the streets or at ratty hotels in Santa Cruz and San Francisco, turning tricks to get her next bag of heroin.2004 March 21, Kevin Fagan, “The Homeless: Desperate search for Bridget—sister, mother, addict”, in San Francisco Chronicle, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2004:
- They were turning tricks, doing drugs, and generally little better off than they had been before, except that they were keeping more of their money. But they seemed lonely, too, without the company of their pimp and the rest of his string.2006, Steve Niles, Jeff Mariotte, 30 Days of Night: Rumors of the Undead, page 307:
1 more example
- […] two sisters we always see at the club have started turning tricks to pay for heroin.2010, Jennifer Egan, “Ask Me if I Care”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:
- Synonyms
- sell one's body, turn a trick
- Derived terms
- trick turner
- Related terms
- turn the trick