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You're missing one definition: an aggressively enterprising person; a go-getter I think it depends on audience, but I hear this quite often in these circles
by alexyim 16y ago
You're missing one definition:
an aggressively enterprising person; a go-getter
I think it depends on audience, but I hear this quite often in these circles.
- moopark 16y agoI agree that it depends on your dictionary. If a locally repurposed word like hustler has a very strong meaning outside your circles, chances are good that when you start talking about hustling in relation to business, a fair number of people are going to think swindler or worse. It seems that a number of people like to use it as a self-description because it does have negative, edgy traits -- in the same sense of 'ninja'. Unlike 'ninja', however, 'hustler' can easily lie a bit too close to the truth.