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call girl en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. (informal) A female prostitute who is hired by telephone.
2. (humorous) A woman who works as a call center agent. (see usage notes)
   • My position taking telephone calls in customer service at Hewlett-Packard wasn't a high-status job—in fact, we were originally known as 'the call girls'—but soon I learned enough about the company's products to move into marketing and corporate communications. 2009, Aundrea Lacy, Brownie Points: Seven Steps to Success for Woman, page 8:
   • The Quinlan Marketing Coordination Plan – "Call girl" approach , separating sales from prospecting doubled agency sales in one year. 1980, Insurance Marketing - Volume 81, page 47:
   • The telephone reduced isolation and danger for rural families. City dwellers used it as a babysitter. It reinforced the social phenomenon of the teenage peer group. It led to new social and occupational roles: telephone operator, telemarketer, call girl. It helped the geographic expansion of organizations. 1994, Connie J. G. Gersick, Group Management: Current Issues in Practice and Research, page 173:
   • Designed primarily as a marketing tool for television stations, the "call-girl" console is produced by Key Marketing and sells for $3,995. 1996, Polling and Survey Research Methods, 1935-1979, page 239:
   • Girl: Yeah, Pay was okay, but it just wasn't worth it. Everybody always yelling at you and hanging up on you. Guy: Hanging up on you? Girl: Yeah. Guy: Because you were a call girl? Girl: Yeah. Guy: Like a telemarketer? Girl: Yes! Guy: Oh. Well, this girl wasn't...that kind of call girl. 2008, S. Morgan Friedman, Michael Malice, Overheard in New York:

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call girl

Relateds

call house · callboy