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Hustler

noun

A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets. Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, slattern, street girl, streetwalker.

A shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties. Synonyms: operator, wheeler dealer.

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"Hustler" Quotes from Famous Books

... when a man loves the woman who bursts upon his vision, that spell must overwhelm him, especially if he be such a man as was I—a product of life's roughest factories, hard and harsh, an elbower and a trampler, a hustler and a bluffer. Then, you must also consider the exact circumstances—I standing there, with destruction hanging over me, with the sense that within a few hours I should be a pariah to her, a masquerader ...

— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips

Words linked to "Hustler" : whore, woman of the street, tart, harlot, wire-puller, lady of pleasure, opportunist, self-seeker, colloquialism, sporting lady, cyprian, hustle, working girl, prostitute, fancy woman, cocotte, bawd