_Pull_: "recruit"

[Wilson Gray]

>From the NYT Magazine:

“It’s the poorest area in Juárez,” Uranga said. “And it’s the easiest
place to _pull_ labor.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/magazine/life-on-the-line-between-el-paso-and-juarez.html?pagewanted=all

What's of interest here is that _pull_ is used in the sense of
"recruit" or some such. In the language of "the life" / "the game,"
the pimp's first move toward "putting a bitch on the block" is the
_pull_.

But I've recently heard "pulling" used by cop-opera "whores" WRT
_attracting tricks_! Back in the day, the term for this activity was
"catching." And any woman whatsoever dressed so as to "show off the
goods" was said to be "wearing _catching clothes_."

[Semantic development < "catch someone's eye"?]

_Give it up to_, wherein _it_ is "that pussy," is also, according to
trash-TV, undergoing a shift. A twenty-ish guest on Springer admitted
to his girlfriend,

"After you left the bar, I _gave it up to_ your best friend in the bed
of her pickup, on the parking lot."

The speaker was white. Perhaps "give it up to" in its original
acceptation isn't available to white speakers, as is similarly the
case with _tap that ass_.

Youneverknow.

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