hustle
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
By metathesis from Dutch hutselen (“to shake up”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
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, Babbitt Chapter 12
- Men in dairy lunches were hustling to gulp down the food which cooks had hustled to fry
- (transitive) To con or deceive; especially financially.
- 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.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- To dance the hustle, a disco 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.
- (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
Translations [edit]
to rush or hurry
to con or deceive
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Noun [edit]
hustle (plural hustles)
