hustle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch husselen or by metathesis from Dutch hutselen (“to shake up”), a frequentative of hutsen (“to stir, to move something (back and forth)”).
Inflected forms:
form: hustles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hustling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hustled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hustled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hustles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
pos: verb
examples: There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
gloss: To rush or hurry.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I'll have to hustle to get there on time.
Men in dairy lunches were hustling to gulp down the food which cooks had hustled to fry
gloss: To bundle; to stow something quickly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.
gloss: To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.
pos: verb
gloss: To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
pos: verb
tags: informal
gloss: To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
pos: verb
tags: informal
gloss: To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: All my life, been hustling / And tonight is my appraisal / 'Cause I'm a hooker selling songs / And my pimp's a record label
gloss: To serve (a clientele) as a prostitute.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: When I was in Morocco I wrote this play ("Playland Blues") about young kids who […] hustle old gay men and closet queens.
gloss: To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
pos: verb
gloss: To work.
pos: verb
tags: informal
gloss: To put a lot of effort into one's work.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Frazier and Gary worked for me for free -- for six months -- they didn't take any money from the house. They worked for tips. They both had other jobs, and they came in here and they hustled their ass.
gloss: A state of busy activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 'It's just natural for the folks here to be indolent,' she said. 'They just haven't got any hustle in them.'
gloss: A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A scam or swindle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: An act of prostitution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Little Joe never once gave it away / Everybody had to pay and pay / A hustle here and a hustle there / New York City's the place
gloss: An activity, especially to achieve a desired goal or make money.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Everybody's got a hustle.
Synonyms: make tracks
swindle
turn tricks
Derived words: hustlee
hustle up
outhustle
unhustled
unhustling
ear hustle
hustle alarm
hustle and bustle
hustle-bustle
hustle kingdom
hustler
hustly
on the hustle
side hustle
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: бързане
roman: bǎrzane
lang: Catalan
word: tràfec
lang: Finnish
word: kiire
lang: Finnish
word: hoppu
lang: French
word: bousculade
lang: French
word: agitation
lang: French
word: cohue
lang: Galician
word: bulicio
lang: German
word: Hast
lang: German
word: Hektik
lang: German
word: Hetze
lang: German
word: Eile
lang: Hebrew
word: המולה
roman: hamulá
lang: Italian
word: fretta
lang: Italian
word: spinta
lang: Italian
word: trambusto
lang: Italian
word: andirivieni
lang: Polish
word: bieganina
lang: Russian
word: спе́шка
roman: spéška
lang: Russian
word: суета́
roman: sujetá
lang: Russian
word: су́толока
roman: sútoloka
lang: Russian
word: толкотня́
roman: tolkotnjá
lang: Spanish
word: bullicio
lang: Spanish
word: ajetreo
lang: Spanish
word: correcorre
lang: Spanish
word: corredera
lang: Spanish
word: corre corre
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قیزغینلق
roman: kızgınlık