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hustler noun- a prostitute, especially a male homosexual US, 1924
- 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
- You go around telling people I’m a hustler and I’ll break your skinny head. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 243, 1952
- [S]he would not have me hold her arm for fear people of the street here would think her a hustler[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, p. 68, 1958
- [B]oth those girls are workin’ shimmy dancers and hustlers I know from Portland. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 210, 1962
- — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 265, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- And I would discover that to many of the street people a hustler became more attractive in direct relation to his seeming insensitivity–his “toughness.” — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 37, 1963
- Making it with a “hustler” or a “piece of trade” fills this need when everything else has failed. — Antony James, America’s Homosexual Underground, p. 14, 1965
- You can find no end of hustlers that are male prostitutes. — KFRC radio, San Francisco, 8 November 1965: “The Market Street proposition”
- The folklore of the hustler’s world has legendary stories of hustlers who supposedly made the scene with a big-time producer, satisfied the old auntie and ended up as a big star. — Johnny Shearer, The Male Hustler, p. 141, 1966
- It was Myron who observed in 1964 that all of the male hustlers were supporting Goldwater for President. — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 43, 1968
- Male prostitutes are currently called “hustlers.” — Angelo d’Arcangelo, The Homosexual Handbook, p. 27, 1968
- I’m not like the average hustler you’d meet. — Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, p. 177, 1968
- It had all the types in the hustling scene: the new hustler, the aging hustler, the old queen, the fag-hag, etc. — Screw, pp. 8–9, 24 January 1969
- There’d usually be a couple of chicks, maybe a few good-looking hustlers from the Square, a friend of mine–a car thief–and a partner or two. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 84, 1990
- Any hustler who forgets that he must provide more than a hard cock and a willing ass and mouth is not going to make a go of it for long. — John Preston, Hustling, p. 41, 1994
- a drug pusher UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 63, 1996
- a person who makes his living by playing pool for wagers, feigning a skill level below his true level to secure bets US
- The poolroom hustler makes his living by betting against his opponents in different types of pool or billiard games, and as part of the playing and betting process he engages in various deceitful practices. — Ned Polsky, Hustlers, Beats, and Others, p. 41, 1967
- a person who lives by his charm and wits, dishonest but usually not violent US, 1896
- Call Roy Bartholomew Beavers what you will, he never represented himself–unless it suited his immediate plans–as anything other than he was: a hustler. — Clarence Cooper Jr, Black, p. 233, 1963
- It’s very interesting; they make the best hustlers too. Guys from the South, they make the best con men. — Kate Millett, The Prostitution Papers, p. 117, 1976
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