streetwalker

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The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, while Candy changes from an actress, call girl, streetwalker, and then a madwoman.

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  1. noun A prostitute, especially one who solicits in the streets.

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  • I saw her through a window not an hour ago, lying in a yellow dress like a streetwalker's. —  EQMM,January2007
  • So Barkley did all this just to get his knob slobbed by a streetwalker? —  The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories
  • She's a vile, unscrupulous monster who peddles morbid prurience like a five-dollar streetwalker and whose brand of rank solipsism is matched only by her near-sociopathic disregard for the lives she's ruined and exploited and by her apparent contempt for the tenets of responsible journalism (to say nothing of basic human decency). —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, while Candy changes from an actress, call girl, streetwalker, and then a madwoman. —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • "Listen" to your daughter more - she seems to have a good head on her shoulders and doesn't want you walking out of the house looking like a streetwalker with too short skits and too low / tight tops on! —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
 

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