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- Dictionaryhustle/ˈhʌsl/
verb
- 1. push roughly; jostle: "they were hissed and hustled as they went in" Similar
- 2. obtain illicitly or by forceful action: informal North American "Linda hustled money from men she met"
noun
- 1. a state of great activity: "the hustle and bustle of the big cities"
- 2. a fraud or swindle: informal North American "the hustles being used to avoid the draft"
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HUSTLE definition: 1. to make someone move quickly by pushing or pulling them along: 2. to try to persuade someone…. Learn more.
The meaning of HUSTLE is to crowd or push roughly : jostle, shove. How to use hustle in a sentence.
HUSTLE meaning: 1. to make someone move quickly by pushing or pulling them along: 2. to try to persuade someone…. Learn more.
Hustle definition: to proceed or work rapidly or energetically. See examples of HUSTLE used in a sentence.
If you hustle someone, you try to make them go somewhere or do something quickly, for example by pulling or pushing them along.
As a noun, a hustle is a busy, hurried scene, like the hustle of the subway at rush hour. We also call the act of swindling a hustle, because it happens so fast. As a verb, hustle can either mean to swindle someone or to hurry them, or to work hard.
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.
