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break luck en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (slang) For a prostitute to pick up her first client of the day.
    • Ten minutes after she got down she broke luck. A white trick in a thirty-seven Buick picked her up. I timed her. She had racehorse speed. 2011, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, page 99:
    • During a slow moment of their shift, where they're having a hard time breaking luck, they make sure that their pimp becomes aware of this […] 2009, Quincy Mack, The Naked Soul of Pimps and Prostitutes, page 150:
    • Mary hadn't broke luck tonight. 2010, Red Jordan Arobateau, Ho Stroll: Part 1, page 189:
    • When she re-appeared it would only be a matter of minutes before she "Broke luck" (dated her first john). 1970, John Terry Robinson, The double circle people, page 9:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
broke luck Tense=Past lexicographic
broken luck Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
breaks luck Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
breaking luck Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic