bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir
(noun) a rapid active commotion
bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, hustle, sting, flimflam
(noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
hustle
(verb) pressure or urge someone into an action
bustle, bustle about, hustle
(verb) move or cause to move energetically or busily; “The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance”
hustle
(verb) cause to move furtively and hurriedly; “The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater”
hustle
(verb) get by trying hard; “she hustled a free lunch from the waiter”
hustle, pluck, roll
(verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hustle (third-person singular simple present hustles, present participle hustling, simple past and past participle hustled)
To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.
(intransitive) To rush or hurry.
(transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
(transitive) To con or deceive; especially financially.
To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
(informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
(informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
(informal) To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
(informal) To work.
(informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
• (to rush): fly, make tracks; see also rush
• (to deceive): defraud, swindle; see also deceive
• (to be a prostitute): sell one's body, turn tricks; see also prostitute oneself
• (to work as a pimp): pimp; see also pimp out
• (to work): labor
hustle (countable and uncountable, plural hustles)
A state of busy activity.
A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
(preceded by definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle.
(prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
• Hulets, Lesuth, Lueths, sleuth
Source: Wiktionary
Hus"tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hustled; p. pr. & vb. n. Hustling.] Etym: [D. hustelen to shake, fr. husten to shake. Cf. Hotchpotch.]
Definition: To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room. Macaulay.
Hus"tle, v. i.
Definition: To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry. Leaving the king, who had hustled along the floor with his dress worfully arrayed. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
