break luck

verb

For a prostitute to pick up her first client of the day.

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Meanings

verbbreak luck (third-person singular simple present breaks luck, present participle breaking luck, simple past broke luck, past participle broken luck)

present singular third person breaks luck · participle present breaking luck · past broke luck · participle past broken luck

  1. slangFor a prostitute to pick up her first client of the day.

    Mary hadn't broke luck tonight.

    2010, Red Jordan Arobateau, Ho Stroll: Part 1, page 189
    3 more examples

    When she re-appeared it would only be a matter of minutes before she "Broke luck" (dated her first john).

    1970, John Terry Robinson, The double circle people, page 9

    During a slow moment of their shift, where they're having a hard time breaking luck, they make sure that their pimp becomes aware of this […]

    2009, Quincy Mack, The Naked Soul of Pimps and Prostitutes, page 150

    Ten minutes after she got down she broke luck. A white trick in a thirty-seven Buick picked her up. I timed her. She had racehorse speed.

    2011, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, page 99
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