HUSTLE

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


Etymology

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• (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

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• 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



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