hustler

IPA: hˈʌsʌɫɝ

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 male prostitute who sells his services to men.
A charlatan, huckster, grifter, swindler, a scoundrel.
(corporate jargon) One who is willing to suffer the most for the sake of company profits; a hard worker.
A surname.
A village in Wisconsin.
A monthly pornographic magazine.
(military) The Convair B-58 Hustler airplane.

Examples of "hustler" in Sentences

The pool hustler is an archetype of American's gritty underbelly.
A pretty boy Bacchus, in a Caravaggio painting, is at once the Greek god himself and an urban hustler from the streets.
The next, I wonder if your use of the word hustler in describing carom billiards players is appropriate, indeed what you intended to imply.
See, here in the real world, the phrase "race hustler" is code for "I'd like to use the N-word but I'm a little too embarassed to do it in public."
[That's hustlers as in people who are busy trying to get stuff done, not sex workers (i guess that meaning of the term hustler is more of a 60's or 70's thing)]
She told me her brother was Michael, who was known as a hustler and was in a wheelchair, paralyzed, having been shot for gambling with loaded dice, according to the story.