MALE PROSTITUTE

hustler noun, US, 1924
• All right, she was a hustler, but she wasn’t
hustling for me and I did her a favor.
—Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick 1950
joey noun, AUSTRALIA, 1979
a youthful, attractive homosexual male
prostitute
• — Maledicta 1979: ‘Kinks and queens:
linguistic and cultural aspects of the
terminology for gays’

joyboy noun, UK, 1961
a young male homosexual, especially a young
male homosexual prostitute
• There were many other ways; masturbation
was first but homosexuals or prisonmade
“joy-boys” came in second. —Piri Thomas,
Seven Long Times 1974

midnight cowboy noun, US, 1972
a homosexual prostitute, originally one who
wears cowboy clothes; hence a homosexual man
Brought from gay subculture into wider use by
the film Midnight Cowboy, 1969. The less subtle,
general sense resulted from the film’s success.
• The clothes chosen by the fetishists epito-
mize masculinity: cowboys, sailors, etc. The
model acting out the cowboy then is a
midnight cowboy[.] —Bruce Rodgers, The
Queens’ Vernacular 1972

tea-room cruiser noun, US, 1982
a male homosexual prostitute who frequents
public toilets
• — Maledicta Summer/Winter, 1982: ‘Dyke
diction: the language of lesbians’

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