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Prostitute vs Spinner - What's the difference?

prostitute | spinner |

As nouns the difference between spinner and prostitute

is that spinner is agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins while prostitute is a person who performs sexual activity for payment, especially a woman.

As a verb prostitute is

to perform sexual activity for money.

prostitute

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who performs sexual activity for payment, especially a woman
  • I currently work as a prostitute in order to pay off my university debts .
  • A person who is perceived as engaging in sexual activity with many people.
  • A person who does, or offers to do, an activity for money, despite personal dislike or dishonour.
  • Usage notes

    * The noun is gender-neutral.

    Synonyms

    * (person who performs sexual activity for payment) See also * (person perceived as engaging in sexual activity) See also , * (person who does an activity for money) sell out

    Verb

    (prostitut)
  • (usually reflexively) To perform sexual activity for money
  • To make another person, or organisation, prostitute themselves.
  • * Bible, Leviticus xix. 29
  • Do not prostitute thy daughter.
  • (derogatory) To use one's talents in return for money or fame
  • (figuratively) To exploit for base purposes; to whore.
  • Yet again a commercial firm had prostituted a traditional song by setting an advertising jingle to its tune.

    spinner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
  • A conical cover at the center of some aircraft propellers.
  • (obsolete) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
  • (slang, cinema) Used primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
  • (computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
  • (cricket) A spin bowler.
  • (fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
  • An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
  • A goatsucker.
  • A spinneret.
  • A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
  • Derived terms

    * ring spinner

    Anagrams

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