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How the word hooker came to mean "prostitute" has never been satisfactorily established. Willard R. Espy says that the word harlot is descended from Old German Hari , "army," and Lot , "loiterer," a camp follower. But hooker, some believe, evolved because British ships used to sail to the Hook of Holland. Ladies of the night, and perhaps of the day, too, lay in wait (or, as Espy put it, "stood in wait, and lay afterward") to please their customers. Some authorities subscribe to the belief that a hooker was so called because she ...