strawberry
n.— «Sounding like Sybil, she says has a lot of “different characters who live within” her. “The most sexual [and] wildest” she’s nicknamed “Strawberry,” the street term for a prostitute who sleeps with pimps. “She likes it rough.”» —“Janet plays it naughty and nice” by Rush & Molloy New York Daily News June 4, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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