PROSTITUTE

baby pro noun, US, 1961
a very, very young prostitute
• —Burgess Laughlin, Job Opportunities in
the Black Market 1978

boom-boom girl noun, US, 1966
• The rest of the day was spent in finding a
boom-boom girl. —Charles Anderson,
The Grunts 1976

dirty leg noun, US, 1966
a woman with loose sexual mores; a common
prostitute
• A dirty leg is the $5 or $10 trick. —Bruce
Jackson, In the Life 1972

flatback noun, US, 2002
• [U]nlike some of his peers, he didn’t take
just any ho – he liked his flatbacks clean
and innocent-looking. —Tracy Funches,
Pimpnosis 2002

hard leg noun, US, 1967
an experienced, cynical prostitute
• —Kenn ‘Naz’ Young, Naz’s Underground
Dictionary 1973

mudkicker noun, US, 1932
a prostitute, especially of the street-walking
variety
• She was three-quarter Kelsey with mossy
glossy hair / she was a stompdown
mudkicker and her mug was fair. —Bruce
Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and
Swim Like Me 1964

pross; pros noun, UK, 1905
• Several of her stable prosses were
chatting over too hot cups of coffee, eager
to break luck, anxious for Leila to tell
them where to turn the first trick of their
workday. —Emmett Grogan, Final Score
1976

racehorse noun, US, 1972
an accomplished, sought-after prostitute
• [A] young what-they-call “racehorse,” she’d
have run in there, got her $20, and have
been back in fifteen minutes. —Bruce
Jackson, Outside the Law 1972