turn a trick

present singular third person turns a trick · participle present turning a trick · participle past turned a trick · past turned a trick

1. USidiomaticTo perform a sexual service for a customer.

   City prostitutes say laws governing the sex trade are putting them in danger every time they turn a trick.

   2007 March 22, Ajay Bhardwaj, “Laws put us at risk: hookers”, in Edmonton Sun (Canada), retrieved 18 Feb 2009

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   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.

   1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 23

   Synonyms: sell one's body, turn tricks