whore out

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Etymology[edit]

whore +‎ out

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whore out (third-person singular simple present whores out, present participle whoring out, simple past and past participle whored out)

  1. (informal, transitive, vulgar) To prostitute, take advantage of, exploit, show off; to hire out or provide to others like a whore.
    My father started to whore out my little brother as muscle for his construction company when he was six years old.
    • 2005, Darren Baker, In the Same Boat[1]:
      It had landed him the thankless job of driving a bunch of loud whored-out drunks back to the boat at twelve-thirty in the morning
  2. (informal, transitive, vulgar) To pimp; to offer (one's sex partner) to others.
    My buddy Ted will whore out his wife to any of his friends.
    • 2008, Bob Stirling, The Town Bull[2]:
      I am your slave, your harlot, ready to be whored out in the public street even, if you want to, and I live only to be whored by you
  3. (informal, intransitive, vulgar) To do something debasing for money.
    • 2008, George Kouvaros, Paul Schrader[3]:
      If a studio had made it, everyone would be saying that I had whored out, but in fact I had to fight to raise the financing, so if I did whore out, I whored out to my own melodramatic side”

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