away-day girl

noun

Etymology

From the name of cheap "away-day" tickets introduced by British Rail.

Definitions

  1. A prostitute who travels to another city to pick up clients, returning home either the…

    A prostitute who travels to another city to pick up clients, returning home either the same or next day.

    • This provision has particular implications for prostitutes working in the Paddington area where most women are thought by the police to be 'away-day girls', who travel to London from the Midlands and Northern cities.
    • Unlike Matthews' (1990) opportunity-driven "away day girls" who desisted in the face of a crackdown in London, the subjects of this study were, as a group, highly motivated and unlikely to desist.

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