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.
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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
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
