turned tricks
Exchanged sex commercially
Turned tricks is the past tense of turn tricks, slang for engaging in prostitution—exchanging sex for money.
The phrase views each transaction as a "trick," a term for both the act and the client: She turned tricks to support her habit.
The expression appears frequently in accounts of street prostitution and survival sex work.
- prostitutionCommercial sexual services
- oldest professionSex work, historically
- escortingAccompanying for protection
- sex workerProvider of paid intimacy
- solicitationSeeking to obtain
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