Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who hustles; specifically, one who is active and energetic in business; a lively worker.
- noun A strong, heavy turning-chisel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
hustles : especially somebody whopretends to be anamateur at agame in order to winbets . - noun A
pimp . - noun A
prostitute . - noun A
male prostitute who sells his services to men.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
- noun a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties
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Examples
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The next, I wonder if your use of the word hustler in describing carom billiards players is appropriate, indeed what you intended to imply.
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The next, I wonder if your use of the word hustler in describing carom billiards players is appropriate, indeed what you intended to imply.
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[That's hustlers as in people who are busy trying to get stuff done, not sex workers (i guess that meaning of the term hustler is more of a 60's or 70's thing)]
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The pool hustler is an archetype of American's gritty underbelly.
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See, here in the real world, the phrase "race hustler" is code for "I'd like to use the N-word but I'm a little too embarassed to do it in public."
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See, here in the real world, the phrase "race hustler" is code for "I'd like to use the N-word but I'm a little too embarassed to do it in public."
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See, here in the real world, the phrase "race hustler" is code for "I'd like to use the N-word but I'm a little too embarassed to do it in public."
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She told me her brother was Michael, who was known as a hustler and was in a wheelchair, paralyzed, having been shot for gambling with loaded dice, according to the story.
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A pretty boy Bacchus, in a Caravaggio painting, is at once the Greek god himself and an urban hustler from the streets.
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She told me her brother was Michael, who was known as a hustler and was in a wheelchair, paralyzed, having been shot for gambling with loaded dice, according to the story.
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