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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hustler
noun
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▪ 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 hustler.
▪ On the third sat a gargantuan steroid mass of flesh: a hustler.
▪ The hustlers sat in their open-fronted cafes checking him out, eyeing the briefcase.
▪ You see guys that are lazy bums and they turn into hustlers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hustler

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.

Wiktionary
hustler

n. 1 One who hustles: especially somebody who pretends to be an amateur at a game in order to win bets. 2 A pimp. 3 A prostitute. 4 A male prostitute who sells his services to men.

WordNet
hustler
  1. n. a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets [syn: streetwalker, street girl, hooker, floozy, floozie, slattern]

  2. a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties [syn: wheeler dealer, operator]

Gazetteer
Hustler, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 113
Housing Units (2000): 52
Land area (2000): 0.621765 sq. miles (1.610364 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.621765 sq. miles (1.610364 sq. km)
FIPS code: 36675
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 43.878506 N, 90.269805 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Hustler

Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine published in the United States. It was first published in 1974 by Larry Flynt. It was a step forward from the Hustler Newsletter, which was cheap advertising for his strip club businesses at the time. The magazine grew from a shaky start to a peak circulation of around 3 million; it has since dropped to approximately 500,000. It shows explicit views of the female genitalia, becoming one of the first major US-based magazines to do so, in contrast with relatively modest publications like Playboy.

Today, Hustler is still considered more explicit (and more self-consciously lowbrow) than such well-known competitors as Playboy and Penthouse. It frequently depicts hardcore themes, such as the use of sex toys, penetration and group sex.

Larry Flynt Publications also licenses Hustler brand to the Hustler Casino in Gardena, California which is owned directly by Larry Flynt as an individual through his holding company El Dorado Enterprises, the Hustler Club chain of bars and clubs, and Hustler store chain that sells adult-oriented videos, clothing, magazines and sex toys. The chain's flagship store is on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood.

Hustler (disambiguation)

Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine targeted at men and is also a general brand of Larry Flynt Publications.

Hustler or hustlers may also refer to:

Hustler (car)

The Hustler was a Mini-based project designed in 1978 by Aston Martin Lagonda designer William Towns and later developed into a kit car by his Interstyl design studio.

The original version used upper and lower square-section steel frames, clad with glass fibre panels and large flat glass windows. On most models sliding side windows acted as doors. It used the front and rear sub frames and mechanical components from the British Leyland Mini, Metro or BMC1100/1300. The Hustler came in four and six wheel versions: the six wheel version used two Mini rear sub frame assemblies. The style was very much off-road/utility in the rectilinear idiom of the Lagonda and Bulldog.

At the 1981 Earl's Court Motor Show, a wooden version was introduced, using marine plywood and solid wood as both structure and body. Shortly afterwards, a sportier version was also introduced, using the same lower steel structure but with an upper structure with less height. An open-topped version, the Sport, was introduced at about the same time. The vehicle kits were sold directly from William Towns' home at Stretton-on-Fosse, near Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, where his design studio was based.

About 500 were made.

Hustler (song)

"Hustler" is a single from Simian Mobile Disco's debut album Attack Decay Sustain Release. It features Char Johnson on lead vocals. It was featured in DJ Hero 2 as part of the "Electro Hits" DLC pack, mixed with " Pump Up The Jam" by Technotronic.

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.