_To hustle butt_

[Wilson Gray]

This is more-or-less in both G and GB, but the specific and unique
meaning, "to work as a prostitute" - there was no other, in that place
and at that time - seems to exist only in my memory of the black
sporting life of '60's L.A. It was a mildly-hipper - thanks to the
assonance - variant of "to sell ass"/"to sell boody."

Anybody who worked for a living in a steady job, but not in a "square"
job was referred to as a 'hustler" and doing the job was "hustling":
dealing dope, selling stolen goods, gambling, as was free-lance
whoring - "paying with pussy" - in an emergency.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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