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trick
noun- a prostitute’s customer US, 1925
- They had to keep an eye on the cops all the time, because they weren’t allow to call the tricks like the girls in Storyville. — Louis Armstrong, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, p. 95, 1954
- If Ready has killed some trick he was steering to Reba’s the chair’s too good for him — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 64, 1959
- You’re out here to pull them tricks and acop that bread, dig? — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 10, 1960
- So I walked around the room and I seen this trick / and we went upstarirs and we started real soon. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 47, 1965
- Rita and Flossie don’t exactly rust but they don’t look so good to the tricks seen them twenty- thirty times as they do to tricks seeing them the first time. — Sara Harris, The Lords of Hell, p. 14, 1967
- She told him how she’d met this trick and seeing he looked right, had used her knockout drops. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 97, 1967
- I watched the whores stopping tricks, and I watched where the trick would park his car[.] — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 22, 1973
- When you’re turned out, pimps put that in your head. “You don’t get off with tricks.” Tricks are tricks – that’s how they got the name. — Susan Hall, Ladies of the Night, p. 29, 1973
- No Jean or John this whore couldn’t con / ‘Cause that trick was never born. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 81, 1976
- Look, I got there. He was a trick just like any other for all I know. — 48 Hours, 1982
- Russell recognised some of the pavement princesses, whose pitch this normally was [...] livid at missing their regular johns and champagne tricks on their way back from the City. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 203, 1997
- This must be what her tricks, her subs [sexual submissives], hear as she approaches them. — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 204, 2002
- an act of sex between a prostitute and customer US, 1926
- The girls explained to me that they got eighty cents a trick, one payment for each metal check–“turning a trick” was how they described one session with a john. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 23, 1946
- From this croaker up on 76th Street. He used to write for me, you know, scripts, prescriptions. I turned a trick with him. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 91, 1966
- Pimps take cops to dinner with free tricks. — The Digger Papers, p. 14, August 1968
- I started working as a stripper in a club in Washington and turned a few tricks on the side. — Susan Hall, Gentleman of Leisure, p. 59, 1972
- a short-term homosexual sexual partner, not paying US
- — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 266, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- Martin–the blond trick I introduced you to before you went in there. — John Francis Hunter, The Gay Insider, p. 103, 1971
- — Bruce Rodgers, The Queens’ Vernacular, p. 200, 1972
- I looked like a bull dyke, or a trick of one, with handcuffs, a leather jacket, metal belts, and levi 501’s, so I would try to method act. — Jennifer Blowdryer, White Trash Debutante, p. 56, 1997
- a casual sexual partner US
- If I don’t get arrested, my trick announces upon departure that he’s been exposed to hepatitis! — Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, p. 163, 1968
- a prostitute UK
- He found a sly-eyed trick with bleached, thinning hair. — Kevin Sampson, Powder, pp. 60–61, 1999
- any dupe US, 1865
- We’d shoot among ourselves, ‘cause the tricks wasn’t comin’ in. — Henry Williamson, Hustler!, p. 79, 1965
- [W]e done warned this dude six or seven times about shootin’ that turn-down shot on us, but he still takes us for tricks. — Donald Goines, Cry Revenge, p. 11, 1974
- a swindle UK, 1865
Far less common in this sense, but not unheard. - Since work was out, so also was the grift. He wouldn’t dare turn a trick. — Jim Thompson, The Grifters, p. 124, 1963
- on the railways, a work shift US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 269, 1946
▶ can’t take a trick
to be consistently unsuccessful AUSTRALIA, 1944
From card games.▶ do the trick
to achieve your object UK, 1812- After all, a super luxurious (not necessarily expensive) moisturiser will do the trick just as well as any anti-ageing guff[.] — The Guardian, 31 May 2003
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