turning a trick

Verb

turn a trick (third-person singular simple present turns a trick, present participle turning a trick, simple past and past participle turned a trick)

1. (US, idiomatic) To perform a sexual service for a customer.
   • 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