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Definition of Turn a trick
1. Verb. Have a customer, of a prostitute.
Definition of Turn a trick
1. Verb. (chiefly US idiomatic of a prostitute) To perform a sexual service for a customer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turn A Trick
Literary usage of Turn a trick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe and More Especially by Charles Mackay (1877)
"... car, a twist, a turn, a trick ; cuir (plural, pronounced queer), twists, turns,
tricks, stratagems, things out of the straight line, in modern parlance, ..."
2. A Compendium of Molesworth's Marathi and English Dictionary by James Thomas Molesworth, Baba Padmanji (1863)
"An artful turn, a trick, wile (among wrestlers) : also (in argument, dealing &c.)
a trap, snare. 3 A trouble : a strait, scrape, v. 4. fa^t ». c. To twist. ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"... "If you will give me the money, maybe I can turn a trick for you." Thereupon the
applicant handed him a dollar and he retired. ..."
4. A Grammar of the French Tongue: Grounded Upon the Decisions of the French by John Perrin (1832)
"... a trumpeter. une trompette, a trumpet. un toui-, a turn, a trick. une tour,
a tower. un teneur de livres, a book- la teneur d'un acte, the tenor keeper. ..."
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