streetwalker

[ street-waw-ker ]

/ ˈstritˌwɔ kər /

a prostitute who solicits on the streets.

Origin of streetwalker

First recorded in 1585–95; street + walker

street·walk·ing, noun

If she wants to be a street-walker, let her be one, but she shall not stay here.

Jennie Gerhardt |Theodore Dreiser
One would say you are a Piccadilly street-walker and they wouldn't be far wrong.

My Neighbors |Caradoc Evans
She was a street-walker, nicknamed by her admirers the She-wolf.

The Death of the Gods |Dmitri Mrejkowski
Light in the vagabond, light in the mendicant, light in the thief, light in the street-walker.

The Memoirs of Victor Hugo |Victor Hugo

She afterwards fell, became a street-walker, and died neglected and uncared for in the Infirmary.

At War with Society or, Tales of the Outcasts |James McLevy

streetwalker

/ (ˈstriːtˌwɔːkə) /

a prostitute who solicits on the streets

streetwalking, noun, adjective