hustler

• “The next, I wonder if your use of the word hustler in describing carom billiards players is appropriate, indeed what you intended to imply.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “[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)]”

  DIY Filmmaker Sujewa

• “The pool hustler is an archetype of American's gritty underbelly.”

  Boing Boing

• “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.”

  Jesse Jackson, Day 2.

• “A pretty boy Bacchus, in a Caravaggio painting, is at once the Greek god himself and an urban hustler from the streets.”

  Archive 2005-12-01

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Blue Rage, Black Redemption

• “The life of a hustler is one of seemingly glamour, but this film paints no picture of glory; it puts the drug life in its proper perspective by illustrating its cost in human suffering.”

  Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Showing Their Side

• “Alas, they don't take reprints or I would have contacted naomikritzer about sending along the one we sold to TOTU about a magic using hustler from a alternate history Britian that was still Roman.)”

  Day in the Life of an Idiot

• “But in the African-American community, a hustler is a go-getter who makes their own way when they can't find one.”

  NPR: In Hard Times, Some Blacks Turn To Hustling

• “But Joe's start as a hustler is a mite rockier than anticipated.”

  John Farr: Ten Films For The Coming Weeks

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