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Hustle   /hˈəsəl/   Listen
Hustle

noun
1.
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.  Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, sting.
2.
A rapid active commotion.  Synonyms: ado, bustle, flurry, fuss, stir.
verb
(past & past part. hustled; pres. part. hustling)
1.
Cause to move furtively and hurriedly.
2.
Move or cause to move energetically or busily.  Synonyms: bustle, bustle about.
3.
Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity.  Synonyms: pluck, roll.
4.
Get by trying hard.
5.
Pressure or urge someone into an action.



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"Hustle" Quotes from Famous Books



... exercise. She an' her mother was livin' in two miserable rooms, her mother doin' washin' an' Maggie runnin' errands; but they was as near respectable as half-fed people ever was in the world, an' it made 'em hustle to even keep half fed, too, 'cause they was in competition with the Chinks, who don't have to eat at all—that is, not ...
— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason
... philosopher you can do this thing: you can go to the top of a high building, look down upon your fellow-men 300 feet below, and despise them as insects. Like the irresponsible black waterbugs on summer ponds, they crawl and circle and hustle about idiotically without aim or purpose. They do not even move with the admirable intelligence of ants, for ants always know when they are going home. The ant is of a lowly station, but he will often reach home and get his slippers on while you are ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry
... answered her mother more anxiously, "and went out, although I tried to keep her. Hardly had she gone when I heard a smothered sob, and then there was a hustle of feet as if she were being ...
— The Black Colonel • James Milne
... for you to get out and hustle for yourselves. It will make men-squirrels out of you. If you get into trouble, always remember your father will help you. And don't ...
— Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers • David Cory
... and hiding in the nearest timber, what do they do? They foolishly stop on the other side of the field, or in the next acre of brush, in full view of the hunters and dogs, who find it great fun to hustle after them and in fifteen minutes put them up again. Thus it is easy for a hunting party to "follow up" a covey until the last bird of ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday


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