hustler

Plural: hustlers

Noun

• An aggressively enterprising person; one who makes money illicitly.
• a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
• a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties
• One who rushes or hurries; an energetic person.
• Somebody who pretends to be an amateur at a game in order to win bets.
• A pimp.
• A prostitute.
• A prostitute.
• A male prostitute who sells his services to men.
• A charlatan, huckster, grifter, swindler, a scoundrel.
• One who is willing to suffer the most for the sake of company profits; a hard worker.

Examples

• Known as a Scrabble hustler, she always seemed to find the impossible triple-word score.

Synonyms

floozie, floozy, hooker, operator, slattern, street girl, streetwalker, wheeler dealer, sandbagger

Related Words

ringer