| 单词 | gutter-crawling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgutter-crawling gutter-crawling n. the action of driving a car, etc., slowly along a road close to the pavement and attempting to entice into it women, esp. prostitutes (cf. kerb crawling n. at kerb n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > frequenting prostitutes > kerb-crawling cruising1927 gutter-crawling1945 kerb crawling1949 1945 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. vi. 504 Gutter-crawling is practised by mashers who run close to the sidewalk, hoping to pick up light-headed girls. 1968 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 Nov. 3/5 Thirty-five men were fined..on ‘guttercrawling’ charges... The charges, under an Act promulgated last December alleged the men ‘loitered either to be accosted by a prostitute or for the purpose of inviting or soliciting any female to prostitute herself for pecuniary reward’. < as lemmas |
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