hustle
to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: The sisters hustled about, putting the house in order.
to push or force one's way; jostle or shove.
to be aggressive, especially in business or other financial dealings.
Slang. to earn one's living by illicit or unethical means.
Slang. (of a prostitute) to solicit clients.
to convey or cause to move, especially to leave, roughly or hurriedly: His bodyguards hustled him out of the court past policemen and paramilitary soldiers.
to urge, prod, or speed up: Hustle your work along.
to pressure or coerce (a person) to buy or do something: Our waiter hustled us into ordering more than we could eat.
to obtain by aggressive and often illicit means: He could always hustle a buck or two from some sucker.
to beg; solicit.
to sell in or work (an area), especially by high-pressure tactics: The souvenir vendors began hustling the town at dawn.
to sell, promote, or publicize in a lively, vigorous, or aggressive manner: to hustle souvenirs.
to jostle, push, or shove roughly.
Slang. to induce (someone) to gamble or to promote (a gambling game) when the odds of winning are overwhelmingly in one's own favor.
Slang. to cheat; swindle: They hustled him out of his savings.
Slang.
(of a prostitute) to solicit (someone).
to attempt to persuade (someone) to have sexual relations.
energetic activity, as in work.
discourteous shoving, pushing, or jostling.
Slang.
an inducing by fraud, pressure, or deception, especially of inexperienced or uninformed persons, to buy something, participate in an illicit scheme or dishonest gambling game, etc.
such a product, scheme, gambling game, etc.
Slang. a competitive struggle: Why not take a break from the hustle to find a place where the tranquility of nature frees your mind to do its most innovative thinking.
Slang. any means of earning a living; a paid job or occupation: The university denied him tenure, so I guess he has to find a new hustle.
a fast, lively, popular ballroom dance evolving from Latin American, swing, rock, and disco dance styles, with a strong basic rhythm and simple step pattern augmented by strenuous turns, breaks, etc.
Origin of hustle
1Other words from hustle
- out·hus·tle, verb (used with object), out·hus·tled, out·hus·tling.
- un·hus·tled, adjective
- un·hus·tling, adjective
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How to use hustle in a sentence
The hustle and desire to expand eventually led him to seek out his own space in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle.
He was someone who could do a hustle and a scam just below the radar of getting law enforcement over the hump to care.
“People want to believe”: How Love Fraud builds an absorbing docuseries around a romantic con man | Alissa Wilkinson | September 4, 2020 | VoxAt Directive, Izabelle combines her sales hustle mentality and creative writing expertise to cover a wide variety of SaaS marketing topics and support long-term marketing strategy.
Five content promotion strategies SaaS marketers should implement today | Izabelle Hundrev | August 28, 2020 | Search Engine WatchWhat started as a side hustle — selling baked goods — turned into a full-time business in 2019.
A domino effect: How USPS delays may hurt e-commerce startups | Anna Hensel | August 14, 2020 | DigidayMichelle Lovero-Holliday has taken a step back from the hustle of delivering groceries.
Covid-19 is exposing the inequality of mental health care access for essential workers | Michelle Cheng | July 5, 2020 | Quartz
If nobody on the outside will send Teresa money, should she learn a prison hustle?
How a ‘Real Housewife’ Survives Prison: ‘I Don’t See [Teresa Giudice] Having a Cakewalk Here’ | Michael Howard | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe bar starts to get busy and the bartenders, two of whom are wearing Casa Bruja T-shirts, begin to really hustle.
House of the Witch: The Renegade Craft Brewers of Panama | Jeff Campagna | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHer hustle has started to pay off and she started a 14-date national tour in early November.
Halfway to the park, the hustle of Goma and outlying villages faded behind him.
A Belgian Prince, Gorillas, Guerrillas & the Future of the Congo | Nina Strochlic | November 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSummer vacations should offer a hiatus from the hustle but at the Hamptons everyone is selling or pushing someone or something.
The Hell of the Hamptons: Why the Exclusive Hotspot Is a Mind-Numbing Drag | Robert Gold | August 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf we hustle right smart we can get a pen done 'fore dark, let alone gettin' them cattle into a shed.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondYou know Ive run the engine attached to The hustle many a time; the men used to let me do it.
Those Dale Girls | Frank Weston CarruthThe tall Schree warriors, their long faces expressionless, started to hustle the three captives toward the door again.
Valley of the Croen | Lee TarbellI know pretty well when Christmas is comin', by the way I got to hustle, an' the size of the boxes I got to carry.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | VariousI want you to hustle back to the hotel and tell Frank that I'm here.
Frank Merriwell's Pursuit | Burt L. Standish
British Dictionary definitions for hustle
/ (ˈhʌsəl) /
to shove or crowd (someone) roughly
to move or cause to move hurriedly or furtively: he hustled her out of sight
(tr) to deal with or cause to proceed hurriedly: to hustle legislation through
slang to earn or obtain (something) forcefully
US and Canadian slang (of procurers and prostitutes) to solicit
an instance of hustling
undue activity
a disco dance of the 1970s
Origin of hustle
1Derived forms of hustle
- hustler, noun
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