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PRONUNCIATION OF KERB-CRAWLING

kerb-crawling  [kɜːb ˈkrɔːlɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KERB-CRAWLING

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Kerb-Crawling is a noun.
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WHAT DOES KERB-CRAWLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

kerb-crawling

Kerb crawler

A kerb crawler is a person who drives around areas known for street prostitution soliciting prostitutes for sexual activity. The act is known as "kerb crawling" because the person will typically drive very slowly along the kerbside. Kerb crawlers are widely regarded as a public nuisance because they help keep street prostitutes in business in red-light districts and often solicit pedestrians who are not prostitutes for sex, and as a result, kerb-crawling is illegal in many jurisdictions. Sting operations in which undercover police wait for kerb crawlers to proposition them are a common method for tackling kerb crawling. Kerb crawling is illegal in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States and India. Police may also collect licence-plate numbers of vehicles that appear to be kerb crawling and may contact their registered owners. In United Kingdom, kerb crawling was not an arrestable offense until 2001.

Definition of kerb-crawling in the English dictionary

The definition of kerb-crawling in the dictionary is the act of driving slowly seeking to entice someone into the car for sexual purposes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KERB-CRAWLING


appalling
əˈpɔːlɪŋ
bawling
ˈbɔːlɪŋ
brawling
ˈbrɔːlɪŋ
calling
ˈkɔːlɪŋ
caterwauling
ˈkætəˌwɔːlɪŋ
crawling
ˈkrɔːlɪŋ
disinthralling
ˌdɪsɪnˈθrɔːlɪŋ
drawling
ˈdrɔːlɪŋ
enthralling
ɪnˈθrɔːlɪŋ
falling
ˈfɔːlɪŋ
footballing
ˈfʊtˌbɔːlɪŋ
galling
ˈɡɔːlɪŋ
morling
ˈmɔːlɪŋ
paintballing
ˈpeɪntˌbɔːlɪŋ
Pauling
ˈpɔːlɪŋ
sprawling
ˈsprɔːlɪŋ
squalling
ˈskwɔːlɪŋ
trawling
ˈtrɔːlɪŋ
unrecalling
ˌʌnrɪˈkɔːlɪŋ
warling
ˈwɔːlɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KERB-CRAWLING

keratotomy
keraunograph
kerb
kerb appeal
kerb broker
kerb crawling
kerb drill
kerb market
kerb weight
kerb-crawler
kerbaya
Kerbela
kerbing
kerbside
kerbstone
Kerch
kerchief
kerchiefed
kerchieves
kerel

WORDS THAT END LIKE KERB-CRAWLING

bowling
carpet bowling
cowling
crown green bowling
curb crawling
feeling
five-pin bowling
fowling
handling
howling
kerb crawling
mailing
pair trawling
prowling
Rowling
scowling
seam bowling
tenpin bowling
wildfowling
yowling

Synonyms and antonyms of kerb-crawling in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «kerb-crawling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KERB-CRAWLING

Find out the translation of kerb-crawling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kerb-crawling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kerb-crawling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

遏制爬行
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de prostitutas
570 millions of speakers

English

kerb-crawling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अंकुश लगाने - रेंगने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الزحف كبح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

обуздать - ползать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

refrear - rastejando
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রতিবন্ধক-হামাগুড়ি দিয়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

freiner rampant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Merangkak-merangkak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Eindämmung - kriechen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

抑えるクロール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

억제 크롤링
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Curb-crawling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kiềm chế - bò
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அடக்குசங்கிலி ஊர்ந்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कर्ब-क्रॉलिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

frenlemek-tarama
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

frenare - crawling
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ograniczenia - crawling
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

приборкати - повзати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

reduce - crawling
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κράσπεδο σέρνεται
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bekamp - kruip
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

curb - krypa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dempe - kryp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kerb-crawling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KERB-CRAWLING»

The term «kerb-crawling» is normally little used and occupies the 130.793 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KERB-CRAWLING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kerb-crawling

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KERB-CRAWLING»

Discover the use of kerb-crawling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kerb-crawling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Politics of Prostitution: Women's Movements, Democratic ...
The debate entered parliament via the MPs of constituencies particularly affected by kerb crawling, and legislation resulted from private members' bills. There have been several major parliamentary debates on kerb crawling to date: in 1984 ...
Joyce Outshoorn, 2004
2
Paying for Pleasure: Men Who Buy Sex
'Kerb-crawling costs more than you think' Central to the prostitution management policy, a focused marketing campaign to warn against kerb-crawling was launched by the Home Office in May 2007 across England. Sevencitieswere chosen ...
Teela Sanders, 2013
3
The Price of Sex
This shows individual previous offences, the date of the kerb-crawling offence and any offences committed by these men following the kerb-crawling offence. The table perhaps presents a conservative pattern of offences. For example, in the ...
Belinda Brooks-Gordon, 2013
4
Sex Work Now
Although kerb-crawling was not made an arrestable offence until 2001, it has been an offence in England and Wales since 1985. Since then, police have used various anti-kerbcrawler tactics, including verbal warnings, sending warning letters ...
Rosie Campbell, Maggie O'Neill, 2013
5
Liberalism and Prostitution
I use the term permissive prohibition to refer to a set of policies that does not criminalize the sale and purchase of sexual services as such, but that does criminalize closely related activities such as streetwalking and “kerb crawling”— cruising in ...
Peter de Marneffe Professor of Philosophy Arizona State University, 2009
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Demanding Sex: Critical Reflections on the Regulation of ...
Teela Sanders and Rosie Campbell The title of this chapter was inspired by a 2007 poster campaign by Wolverhampton City Council with the slogan ' Wolverhampton hates kerb crawling. So get out and stay out.1 Such strong language and ...
Ms Marina della Giusta, Professor Vanessa Munro, 2013
7
Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: ...
Clause 18 (1) creates a new single offence of soliciting to replace kerb crawling in a street or public place and persistent soliciting on foot. The new clause removes the need for persistency making kerb crawling or soliciting punishable on the ...
Rochelle L. Dalla, Lynda M. Baker, John Defrain, 2011
8
Rethinking Prostitution: Purchasing Sex in the 1990s
In 1984, we initiated the Campaign Against Kerb-Crawling Legislation (CAKCL) - a coalition of anti-rape, Black and civil rights organizations, AIDS prevention groups, lawyers, probation officers and Labour Party activists. We predicted that the ...
Graham Scambler, 2003
9
Perspectives on Sex Crime & Society
Kerb-crawling. Section 1(1) of the 1985 Act states: A man commits an offence if he solicits a woman (or different women) for the purpose of prostitution– (a) from a motor vehicle while it is ...
David W. Selfe, Vincent Burke, 2012
10
Sex Work
The 1985 Sexual Offences Act saw a shift in the focus on who was the 'problem' in prostitution by criminalizing kerb-crawling for the first time (Matthews 1986). Providing no immunity for sex workers, criminalizing buyers only encourages the  ...
Teela Sanders, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KERB-CRAWLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kerb-crawling is used in the context of the following news items.
1
New marketing manager at Sharmill Films
The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. The ensemble cast includes ... «Inside Film, Jun 15»
2
Crackdown on kerb-crawling in prostitution hotspots
Along with targeting kerb-crawling, driving around looking to solicit sex, ... led to the arrest of nine men for kerb-crawling, with two licensed taxi ... «EastLondonLines, Nov 14»
3
Thursday soaps: EastEnders' Mick Carter faces a dilemma after kerb
... in is waiting in the Queen Vic to celebrate Mick's swimming triumph, unaware that he's at the police station being charged with kerb-crawling. «Mirror.co.uk, Aug 14»
4
EastEnders spoilers: Mick Carter will 'get arrested for kerb-crawling
The Queen Vic boss - played by Danny Dyer - will reportedly be arrested next month after he is wrongly accused of kerb-crawling in an attempt ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jun 14»
5
Kerb-crawling Radstock taxi driver 'overcome by temptation', court …
A kerb-crawling taxi driver who has repeatedly breached an ASBO banning him from touring red light areas 'had a problem with temptation', ... «Somerset Guardian, Feb 14»
6
Two charged with kerb-crawling offences
Since January this year 201 people have been dealt with by police, 151 of which for kerb crawling offences, and 71 have been arrested not ... «Luton Today, Aug 13»
7
Councillor found 'kerb-crawling'
Councillor found 'kerb-crawling'. Saturday 1 June 2013. SNP councillor Bill Holman has been convicted of looking for a prostitute in Glasgow's red-light area. «Herald Scotland, May 13»
8
Kerb-crawling protests are falling on deaf ears
A REVIEW of kerb-crawling laws to crack down on prostitution in Leith has been called for amid concerns that evidence rules are making ... «Edinburgh Evening News, May 13»
9
MSP voices concern over lack of prosecutions for kerb-crawling
"I wonder if the Solicitor General is satisfied with the criteria for sufficiency of evidence with regard to kerb crawling. Perhaps she can tell us if ... «stv.tv, May 13»
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kerb-crawling GPs are allowed to keep jobs if they promise it was a …
The kerb-crawling cases include that of one GP and former adviser to the Department of Health who was found guilty of soliciting a prostitute ... «Daily Mail, Sep 11»

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