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The slur (anag)
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hustler
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets [syn: streetwalker , street girl , hooker , floozy , floozie , slattern ] a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties [syn: wheeler dealer , operator ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1825, "thief" (especially one who roughs up his victims), from hustle (v.) + -er (1). Sense of "energetic worker" (especially, but not originally, a salesman) is from 1884; sense of "prostitute" dates from 1924.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Friends had warned Mitchum to steer clear of this hustler , but they became close friends. ▪ Home too, of the legendary drifting tornadoes which pass across this uninterrupted flatness with the casual offhandedness of a juvenile ...
Usage examples of hustler.
Where Argent had expected Telma to stick out, though, he was only slightly surprised to see that she had set herself up as a street hustler.
After a few moments of this, the junior executive backed off and the hustler claimed the feeder as his own.
Doc means is that this Flyte character might just be another sharp hustler out to make a fast buck.
Now the tattooed man, the midgets, dwarves, hustlers, the women from the girly shows, the pitchmen, the bottle-pitch and ring-toss operators, the man who made cotton candy for a living, the woman who dipped apples in caramel sauce, the bearded lady, the three-eyed man, and all the others were asleep or fighting insomnia or making love as if they were ordinary citizens-which, in this world, they were.
He was on friendly terms with all the neighborhood hustlers and scufflers, the numbers writers and unlicensed hooch sellers, the professional females and dice-table bankers.
He stepped up to Stefan and began going through his pockets, coming up with the knife that Tango had given to the hustler.
Some of the other cabbies and hustlers had ambled over to see what was happening.
Carthage and, earlier, Phoenicia were often threatened, on occasion struggling for survival - they were the bustlers and hustlers.
And in the case of the Larners, the association would be even more hazardous - they were outright hustlers tainted by the Playa del Sol debacle.
Angels began in Berdoo with the dragster set, but he was never their public relations man -- only a noisy contact, a phone number and an unhired hustler with a penchant for bugging the press.
Although Josephine lived up to her threat of keeping an eye on Nicholas Long, she admitted before many days had passed that he was what my boys call a thorough-going hustler, and that he was determined to leave no portion of my Congressional acreage unsown with Democratic seed.
It is a very mean game that these high-rolling, coldhearted hustlers play.
This is where the street action lives: The bars, the hustlers, the drug market, the whores -- and also the riots, the trashings, killings, gassings, the sporadic bloody clashes with the hated, common enemy: The cops, the Pigs, the Man, that blue-crusted army of fearsome gabacho troops from the East L.
When a teenage hustler turns up a minidisc player that contains clues to a headline-grabbing missing persons case, he seeks out Donovan, the only man named on the tape.
Knowing Tony well, Van had always known better than to try to outhustle the IPO hustlers on Wall Street.