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as in prostitute
a woman who engages in sexual activities for money
policemen kept the street clean of hustlers
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as in powerhouse
an ambitious person who eagerly goes after what is desired
the ad for the sales job claims that for someone who's a real hustler, the sky's the limit
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Recent Examples of hustler
Turturro is exactly the right actor to play an aging hustler in a cast rounded out by Steve Buscemi and Giancarlo Esposito.
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Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
Neither would have agreed to portray a skinny ping pong hustler with a surly disposition and bad complexion.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
The actor gained acclaim for his role as a fast-talking hustler in Barry Levinson’s coming-of-age comedy Diner.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
Perd interviewed just about everyone on the Parks core cast across his six-season run on the show, from Amy Poehler's type-A bureaucrat Leslie Knope to Aziz Ansari's slick hustler Tom Haverford.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Dec. 2025
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Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
Neither would have agreed to portray a skinny ping pong hustler with a surly disposition and bad complexion.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
The actor gained acclaim for his role as a fast-talking hustler in Barry Levinson’s coming-of-age comedy Diner.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
Perd interviewed just about everyone on the Parks core cast across his six-season run on the show, from Amy Poehler's type-A bureaucrat Leslie Knope to Aziz Ansari's slick hustler Tom Haverford.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hustler
Noun
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Many maintained contact with him even after his conviction in 2008 for soliciting a prostitute and procuring a child for prostitution in Florida.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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The mothers were usually poor women or prostitutes, the children generally given up for adoption to orphanages, many of them run by foreign missionaries.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Feb. 2026
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Dua Lipa and Callum Turner, as a powerhouse couple, that fall more in step with the likes of Hailey and Justin Bieber’s individual style statements than, say, Kylie Jenner and Timothee Chalamet’s joint method dressing.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
15 Feb. 2026
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California remains a dairy powerhouse, with one in every five glass of milk drunk in this country coming from California dairy business.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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Well, yes, there were also hookers and tequila girls and whatever else was going on in those offices.—
Lacey Rose,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Nov. 2025
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Making the cut, however, is not enough for good ratings, and so the Network creates a fake new clickbait backstory for Richards, painting him as a deadbeat dad with a hooker for a wife.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Hustler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hustler. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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