hustle

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hustle (third-person singular simple present hustles, present participle hustling, simple past and past participle hustled)

(intransitive) To rush or hurry.

I'll have to hustle to get there on time.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbit Chapter 12
  
  Men in dairy lunches were hustling to gulp down the food which cooks had hustled to fry
(transitive) To con or deceive.

The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.
(transitive) To bundle, to stow something quickly.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
  
  There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
to dance the hustle (see Wikipedia:Hustle (dance))
To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
To sell sex, to work as a pimp.
To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.

to rush or hurry

to con or deceive

hustle (plural hustles)

rush or hurry

type of dance