• yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Doesn’t hooker also mean sex worker? As in the person who does hookups.

    English is not my first language but I never thought it was a slur, I don’t think it is.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      A hooker is a subset of sex workers. You wouldn’t call someone that makes most of their money on OnlyFans a hooker, but they are sex workers

    • subversive_dev@lemmy.ml
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      I’d call it a minor slur in English. More polite than “whor e” and less than “prostitute”