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hustle
verb- to engage in prostitution US, 1895
- All right, she was a hustler, but she wasn’t hustling for me and I did her a favor. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, pp. 13–14, 1950
- Many of the white women who solicit on the streets are young; it takes some time for these girls, fresh off the farms, to get the nerve to hustle in high-class hotels. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 23, 1951
- Like me, he was there almost every night; and like me, too, he was, I knew, hustling. — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 40, 1963
- Sandy hustled in Hollywood for a time before finding San Francisco, and he compared the police control of male prostitution. — KFRC radio, San Francisco, 8 November 1965: “The Market Street proposition”
- In Philadelphia we found the place to hustle was Rittenhouse Square and Fairmount Park. — Johnny Shearer, The Male Hustler, pp. 141–142, 1966
- The idea of hustling was not a new one to Ina. — Vance Donovan, High Rider, p. 47, 1969
- [S]he said, “I’m going out hustling tonight.” — Kate Millett, The Prostitution Papers, p. 48, 1976
- She told me she had been doing quite well–until but recently working as a model–doing a little hustling on the side[.] — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 58, 1980
- Margo goes out and hustles a couple nights a week and that’s the only money they’ve got coming in. — Elmore Leonard, Split Images, p. 90, 1981
- He put his chick out on the street even though she didn’t like to hustle. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 186, 1990
- to obtain after a diligent effort, especially one using unorthodox, if not illegal, means US, 1840
- I came to New York to start Liberty House in the West Village, which I designed, hustled the bread for, painted, and got sore fingers banging in the nails. — Abbie Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It, p. 200, 1968
- — Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- to beg, to cadge US, 1902
Used by beggars and tramps. - He hustles a deutschmark off the G.I.s, then disappears to the bar. — New Society, 31 January 1980
- to flirt; to make a sexual advance TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
- — Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- to seduce US
- “I think you are trying to hustle me,” he said, making sure to smile, to let her know that he didn’t mind at all. — Burt Hirschfield, Fire Island, p. 40, 1970
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