plural hustlers
: a person who hustles: such as
a
: one who obtains money by fraud or deceit : scammer, swindler
A financial hustler who orchestrated the theft of $6.5 million from investors …—
Shayna Jacobs and Alec Tabak
Shayna Jacobs and Alec Tabak… most of the eight major frauds Minkow helped uncover in the past year have involved hustlers trying to sell investments to church groups.—Adam Zagorin
Adam Zagorin
b
: one who lures less skillful players into competing at a gambling game
a pool hustler
This is where the chess hustlers have seized their opportunity. Camped out at the picnic tables in Harvard Square, these seasoned locals will play with you—for a price.—Evan Zigmond
Evan Zigmond
c
: an athlete who plays with alert energy and aggressiveness
By always being the teacher's pet, by being a hustler in football practice and by being the fringe member of many social groups but the leader of none, Kelly managed to mask his insecurities.—Michael Reese
Michael Reese
d
: prostitute
a male hustler
"Beat" is old carny slang. According to Beat Movement legend … , Ginsberg and Kerouac picked it up from a character named Herbert Huncke, a gay street hustler and drug addict from Chicago who began hanging around Times Square in 1939 …—Louis Menand
Louis MenandSynonyms
Examples of hustler in a Sentence
policemen kept the street clean of hustlers
the ad for the sales job claims that for someone who's a real hustler, the sky's the limit
Recent Examples on the Web
Posing as former Sony executive Amy Pascal or producer Wendi Murdoch, director Doug Liman, or former Paramount Pictures CEO Sherry Lansing, the hustler penetrated the pocketbooks of hundreds of victims and inflicted psychological anguish.
—Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
His list of clients ranged from Harlem hustlers to famous personalities like Run DMC, Mike Tyson, Salt-N-Pepa, LL Cool J and Bobby Brown.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 4 May 2024
TikTok Has Changed America: Has there ever been an app more American seeming than TikTok, with its messy democratic creativity, exhibitionism, utter lack of limits and vast variety of hustlers?
Subscribe.
—Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
So who are the resellers, mercenaries, and hustlers who provide Appointment Trader with prime tables?
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 22 Apr. 2024
His frequent collaborator, the director Paul Morrissey, cast her in Flesh, a film that Warhol was producing about a male hustler.
—Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2024
The victim managed to flee with a stab wound to the shoulder, and later saw the man again at the park eyeing other male hustlers.
—Longreads, 4 Apr. 2024
In 1984, Susan Faludi, then a twentysomething reporter a few years out from becoming a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, wrote a front-page story about gay hustlers for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
—Longreads, 4 Apr. 2024
Blazer described how the system really worked, with the coaches, sneaker companies, agents, financial advisors, boosters and unsavory hustlers and runners engaged in vast conspiracies to evade the rules of amateurism.
—Guy Lawson, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2024
Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
His list of clients ranged from Harlem hustlers to famous personalities like Run DMC, Mike Tyson, Salt-N-Pepa, LL Cool J and Bobby Brown.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 4 May 2024
TikTok Has Changed America: Has there ever been an app more American seeming than TikTok, with its messy democratic creativity, exhibitionism, utter lack of limits and vast variety of hustlers?
Subscribe.
—Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
So who are the resellers, mercenaries, and hustlers who provide Appointment Trader with prime tables?
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 22 Apr. 2024
His frequent collaborator, the director Paul Morrissey, cast her in Flesh, a film that Warhol was producing about a male hustler.
—Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2024
The victim managed to flee with a stab wound to the shoulder, and later saw the man again at the park eyeing other male hustlers.
—Longreads, 4 Apr. 2024
In 1984, Susan Faludi, then a twentysomething reporter a few years out from becoming a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, wrote a front-page story about gay hustlers for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
—Longreads, 4 Apr. 2024
Blazer described how the system really worked, with the coaches, sneaker companies, agents, financial advisors, boosters and unsavory hustlers and runners engaged in vast conspiracies to evade the rules of amateurism.
—Guy Lawson, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2024
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“Hustler.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hustler. Accessed 18 May. 2024.
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