Meanings
nouncurb crawler (plural curb crawlers)
plural curb crawlers
- idiomaticslangA prostitute's client, especially one who travels in a car to search for a prostitute.
Out front a curb crawler prowled here, a window blinked there, music waxed and waned from a pub across the bypass.
2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 171Synonyms: prostitute's client
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA prostitute's client, especially one who travels in a car to search for a prostitute.
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