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Hooker with a heart of gold - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Argosy, Bark, Boat, Bottom, Bucket, Craft, Harlot, Hulk, Hull, Hustler, Keel, Leviathan, Packet, Prostitute |
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The hooker with a heart of gold (also the whore or stripper with a heart of gold or the tart with a heart) is a stock character in which a fallen woman, a prostitute who sells sex for cash or drugs, is in fact a kindly and internally wholesome person. This character is often a pivotal, but peripheral, character in literature and motion pictures, usually giving key advice or serving as a go-between. She is sometimes established in contrast to another female character who is morally perfect but frigid or otherwise unyielding. The stereotype owes a debt to Mary Magdalene.
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