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Have, have you ever had trouble with kerb crawlers or anything like that?

Walk towards oncoming traffic so you are not approached by kerb crawlers.

Rennie kept well back, trying not to look like a kerb crawler.

In some places, men who drive around red-light districts for the purpose of soliciting prostitutes are also known as kerb crawlers.

See also the article "Kerb Crawler".

A kerb crawler of indeterminate years appeared from out of the yellow murk and flashed a saucy smile.

Kerb Crawler is a 1976 song by the UK rock group Hawkwind.

And frankly if you live somewhere where there are likely to be kerb crawlers you should get a cab home anyway, lights or no lights...

"Kerb Crawler" "

Then after Francois gotta hold o' me Ah spent ma nights on pavements and inside o' kerb crawlers' cars.

Sting operations in which undercover police wait for kerb crawlers to proposition them are a common method for tackling kerb crawling.

"Kerb Crawler" (Calvert, Brock) - from Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music "

The song "Duke Kerb Crawler" was featured in the video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

Pest - "Duke Kerb Crawler" (Hip Hop)

There was heavier traffic in both directions along the Promenade des Anglais, and the whores were doing good business with kerb crawlers near the airport.

"Kerb Crawler" was released as a single backed by "Honky Dorky" which is the band jamming on "Reefer Madness".

"You" / "Domestic Departure" / "Kerb Crawler" (021 Records, OTO 2, 1979)

Beyond the Blackwall Tunnel there was a noticeable air of desertion, empty streets where only a couple of weeks previously there were always pub and kerb crawlers to be seen.

In the case of Paul v DPP (1989) The court had to decide whether a kerb crawler was 'likely to cause a nuisance to other persons in the neighbourhood'.

Men in the baggy clothes of the common factory laborer and women in the shabby dresses of cheap kerb crawlers prowled up and down Dorset Street, intent on enacting mutually attractive financial transactions.

The advice from the Suzy Lamplugh Trust is very good but references to kerb crawlers and personal alarms assumes that everyone lives in big, well populated urban areas - these are highly likely to be lit anyway.

The description of Kerb crawler makes clear that also: 'the addressing or accosting by a potential prostitution customer of a supposed prostitute with the purpose to conclude to a prostitution agreement with her' is entitled 'solicitation' by some.

Erm we used to get complaints about kerb crawlers, but as you know, we had a a new law that was allegedly attributed to Nottingham, which made it an offence to, in certain circumstances to kerb crawl, looking for prostitutes.

Another documented theory, and possible explanation for the origins of the word, is that honky was a nickname black people gave white men (called "johns" or "curb crawlers") who would honk their car horns and wait for prostitutes to come outside in urban areas (such as Harlem and red-light districts) in the early 1910s.