call girl

See also: callgirl

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

call girl (plural call girls)

1. (informal) A female prostitute who is hired by telephone.
2. (humorous) A woman who works as a call center agent. (see usage notes)
   • 1980, Insurance Marketing - Volume 81‎^[1], page 47:

     The Quinlan Marketing Coordination Plan – "Call girl" approach , separating sales from prospecting doubled agency sales in one year.

   • 1994, Connie J. G. Gersick, Group Management: Current Issues in Practice and Research‎^[2], page 173:

     The telephone reduced isolation and danger for rural families. City dwellers used it as a babysitter. It reinforced the social phenomenon of the teenage peer group. It led to new social and occupational roles: telephone operator, telemarketer, call girl. It helped the geographic expansion of organizations.

   • 1996, Polling and Survey Research Methods, 1935-1979‎^[3], page 239:

     Designed primarily as a marketing tool for television stations, the "call-girl" console is produced by Key Marketing and sells for $3,995.

   • 2008, S. Morgan Friedman, Michael Malice, Overheard in New York‎^[4]:

     Girl: Yeah, Pay was okay, but it just wasn't worth it. Everybody always yelling at you and hanging up on you. Guy: Hanging up on you? Girl: Yeah. Guy: Because you were a call girl? Girl: Yeah. Guy: Like a telemarketer? Girl: Yes! Guy: Oh. Well, this girl wasn't...that kind of call girl.

   • 2009, Aundrea Lacy, Brownie Points: Seven Steps to Success for Woman‎^[5], page 8:

     My position taking telephone calls in customer service at Hewlett-Packard wasn't a high-status job—in fact, we were originally known as 'the call girls'—but soon I learned enough about the company's products to move into marketing and corporate communications.

Usage notes

• The call center sense is used only when the context of a call center is explicit, and even then rarely, and often as a deliberate pun.

Descendants

• → Cebuano: call girl

See also

• callboy
• call house

Cebuano

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English call girl.

Noun

call girl

1. a female prostitute
2. (humorous) a woman who works as a call center agent (see usage notes)

Usage notes

• Only when referring to oneself or to friends and colleagues in the call center industry.

Coordinate terms

• callboy