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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



... but quickly and gently enough he placed the injured man on the stretcher. "I guess you'll have to take the feet," he said. The words were for the girl, although he did not look at her. "I could hustle him myself, but ...
— The Cow Puncher • Robert J. C. Stead
... some distant place. With invincible determination the War Lord would return again. From every inhabited island in the bay would issue boats, Flanagan's old one among them. They would surround Lord Torrington, hustle and push him away. Children from cottage doors would jeer at him. Peter Walsh and Patsy, the drunken smith, would add their taunts to the chorus when at last, baffled and despairing, he landed at the quay. The vision was singularly attractive. Frank ran his hand ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham
... twos an i' threes, But they must be stooan blinnd to what other fowk sees; It must be for ornaments they've been put thear,— It cant be nowt else, for they dooant interfere. Young lads who imagine it maks 'em seem men If they hustle an shaat and mak fooils o' thersen. Daycent fowk mun leeav th' cawsey for th' middle o'th' street For its th' roughs at own Briggate ...
— Yorkshire Lyrics • John Hartley
... low on a fellow," he said, "when he's just squared himself to hustle for a poor candle seller to change her into a howling millionaire. I'd like to know how the devil I'm going to be ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett
... "That's just the trouble. New York is Babylon; Brooklyn is the true Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness. It is extraordinary: poor, harassed New Yorkers presume to look down on low-lying, home-loving Brooklyn, when as a matter of fact it is the precious jewel their souls are thirsting for and they never ...
— Parnassus on Wheels • Christopher Morley


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