streetwalking

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English

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Etymology

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From street +‎ walking.

Noun

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streetwalking (uncountable)

  1. The trade of a streetwalker; prostitution that is not tied to a particular brothel or establishment.
    • 1981, Donald F. Klein, Judith G. Rabkin, Anxiety: new research and changing concepts:
      Now, you know that the classical analytical explanation of agoraphobia of the early 1900s was that it represented a street phobia because the patient equated streetwalking with prostitutional activity []