hustler

A tout is guessing all the time, but a hustler is likely to know something.

He did not wait for business to come to him, he put himself in the path of business; he was a hustler.

In his public speeches he alludes to himself humorously as a hustler.

"I'm a hustler on a dicker, and a hellion on junk," snapped the boss.

His father was a hustler, but the family didn't take after him.

He isn't a hustler, but a rough man would never have suited Tony.

Landon is almost as good a hustler as Tony, and a much better forester.

He's a hustler and makes money, and of course has a firm grip on McElwin's heart.

The construction boss was a hustler, and he drove us mercilessly.

I'm fogy and they want a hustler to represent 'em for a change.