Hustler vs Beggar - What's the difference?
hustler | beggar |
One who hustles: especially 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 person who begs.
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A person suffering from extreme poverty.
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As a proper noun hustler
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(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar .
- I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar , sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!