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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
Many of the hustlers and fabulists who populate Crews’s fiction are typical American strivers.
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Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Fight Night became a way to explore the soul of that shift — through hustlers and preachers, cops and kingpins, veterans and dreamers.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 18 June 2025
All will gather for a celebration of Milligan and the grindhouse film culture that made him — minus the street hustlers and discarded needles.
—Katie Rife, IndieWire, 11 June 2025
In exchange for the miracle of, like, access to all the world’s knowledge and people in our pockets, all the world’s knowledge and people similarly have access to us, including the hustlers and the con artists.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
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Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Fight Night became a way to explore the soul of that shift — through hustlers and preachers, cops and kingpins, veterans and dreamers.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 18 June 2025
All will gather for a celebration of Milligan and the grindhouse film culture that made him — minus the street hustlers and discarded needles.
—Katie Rife, IndieWire, 11 June 2025
In exchange for the miracle of, like, access to all the world’s knowledge and people in our pockets, all the world’s knowledge and people similarly have access to us, including the hustlers and the con artists.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hustler
Noun
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At some point, Perkins reportedly introduced Millard to a Black prostitute but Millard wanted a White one instead, the news report said, citing warrants.—
Louis Casiano,
Fox News,
24 Mar. 2023
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Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, named after Shields’s controversial first film about a young girl who was a child prostitute, features interviews from her childhood friend and actress Laura Linney and Drew Barrymore and how to contrasted with Shields’s experience in the spotlight.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
22 Mar. 2023
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Google, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University, had grown from a search engine into a global technology powerhouse with products like Android, YouTube, and Google Cloud.—
Adam Sarhan,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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The vocal powerhouse and everyone’s favorite elusive chanteuse announced on Monday (July 21) that her 16th studio album will be out on Sept. 26.—
Mya Abraham,
VIBE.com,
21 July 2025
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Fulton had played a hooker in Girl of the Night (1960), starring Anne Francis, when someone from As the World Turns called her manager looking to see if one of his clients, East of Eden actress Lois Smith, was available to play Lisa.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Strip clubs, booze, hookers, blow, the whole nine yards.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Hustler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hustler. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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