Is there a word which means cheater and sounds like "hudson"?

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Could you let me know?

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None of the words in the thesaurus below sounds like 'hudson' to me:

WordReference English Thesaurus © 2012
cheater

  • [*=-1]Sense: One who cheats
    • rogue
    • swindler
    • fraud
    • quack
    • charlatan
    • conniver
    • confidence man
    • scammer
    • chiseler
    • impostor
    • masquerader
    • fake
    • bluffer
    • deceiver
    • inveigler
    • double-dealer
    • trickster
    • shyster
    • mountebank
    • pettifogger
    • pretender
    • knave
    • cozener
    • dodger
    • humbug
    • crook
    • defrauder
    • dissembler
    • bilk
    • sharper
    • shark
    • wolf in sheep's clothing
    • enticer
    • decoy
    • beguiler
    • phony
    • diddler
    • two-time
    • blackleg
    • con artist
    • conman
    • fourflusher
    • cardsharp
    • flimflammer
    • flimflam man
    • bunco artist
    • grifter
    • criminal
    • rascal
    • faker
    • forger
    • plagiarist.





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Could you let me know?

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Why do you think there is such a word? Did you hear it somewhere? Can you post a link or give us an attempt at the whole sentence?


The only word I can think of that even starts like that is "hustler" (which I'm surprised didn't appear in the synonyms list).
 

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:up: That's a good possibility. Another is Rhyming Slang - but it's not a very good 'rhyme': Hudson River/conniver. Perhaps the coiner repaired the rhyme by misspelling 'conniver' as 'conivver'. (This is getting very interesting. Interesting but stupid. :oops:)

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PS Didn't Paul [STRIKE]Hudson[/STRIKE]* play a swindler in The Hustler? And of course there was The Sting.

PPS*:oops: Hudson Schmudson. It was that other bisyllabic actor, Paul Newman.
 
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:up: That's a good possibility. Another is Rhyming Slang - but it's not a very good 'rhyme': Hudson River/conniver. Perhaps the coiner repaired the rhyme by misspelling 'conniver' as 'conivver'. (This is getting very interesting. Interesting but stupid. :oops:)

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PS Didn't Paul Hudson play a swindler in The Hustler? And of course there was The Sting.

Conniver rhyming slang? Very inventive but I have to say extremely unlikely.

I've never heard of Paul Hudson. Paul Newman was in The Hustler (and The Sting).
 

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Thanks all. I think it's hustler. Heard it from the movie called the colour of the money. :)
 

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Thanks all. I think it's hustler. Heard it from the movie called the colour of the money. :)

Well, The Color of Money starring Tom Cruise is based on The Hustler which starred Paul Newman. Paul Newman also gets to be in The Color of Money. Therefore, I think it's very likely that you heard the word "hustler". It's mentioned several times in the film if I remember rightly.
 

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Well, The Color of Money starring Tom Cruise is based on The Hustler which starred Paul Newman. Paul Newman also gets to be in The Color of Money. Therefore, I think it's very likely that you heard the word "hustler". It's mentioned several times in the film if I remember rightly.

Aha. ;-) Scary - my 'mistake' was not really a mistake at all, but somehow meant...

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PS I haven't seen the more recent film - which gives all the more support to my 'crease in the time-space continuum' theory ;-)
 
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