hustler

1 a woman who engages in sexual activities for money a truck stop that featured cheap lodgings and even cheaper hustlers Synonyms bawd, call girl, cocotte, courtesan, drab, harlot, hooker, prostitute, sex worker, streetwalker, strumpet, tart, whoreRelated Words madam, madame; white slave; bimbo [slang], chippie (also chippy), doxy (also doxie), floozy (or floozie), tramp; bitch, hussy, jade, minx; coquette, flirt, libertine, siren, tempter, temptress, vamp, wench

2 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 Synonyms bootstrapper, go-ahead, highflier (or highflyer), hummer, go-getter, live wire, powerhouse, rustler, self-starterRelated Words eager beaver; achiever, comer, doer, enterpriser; he-man, individualistNear Antonyms dawdler, idler, loafer, lounger, putterer, trifler; goldbrick, malingerer, procrastinator, shirker, slacker; drone, lazybones, sluggard; dallier, laggard, lingerer, loiterer, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud; ignorer, ne'er-do-well, neglecter; daydreamer, dreamer; dropout, quitter