Definitions for hustle

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hustle hus·tle

Spelling: [huhs-uh l]

IPA: /ˈhʌs əl/

Hustle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in hustle (ehlstu).

Definitions for hustle

noun

1. energetic activity, as in work.
2. discourteous shoving, pushing, or jostling.
3. Slang. an inducing by fraud, pressure, or deception, especially of inexperienced or uninformed persons, to buy something, to participate in an illicit scheme, dishonest gambling game, etc. such a product, scheme, gambling game, etc.
4. Informal. a competitive struggle:
5. a fast, lively, popular ballroom dance evolving from Latin American, swing, rock, and disco dance styles, with a strong basic rhythm and simple step pattern augmented by strenuous turns, breaks, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to convey or cause to move, especially to leave, roughly or hurriedly:
2. to pressure or coerce (a person) to buy or do something:
3. to urge, prod, or speed up:
4. to obtain by aggressive or illicit means:
5. to beg; solicit.
6. to sell in or work (an area), especially by high-pressure tactics:
7. to sell aggressively:
8. to jostle, push, or shove roughly.
9. Slang. to induce (someone) to gamble or to promote (a gambling game) when the odds of winning are overwhelmingly in one's own favor.
10. Slang. to cheat; swindle:
11. Slang. (of a prostitute) to solicit (someone). to attempt to persuade (someone) to have sexual relations. to promote or publicize in a lively, vigorous, or aggressive manner:

verb (used without object)

1. to proceed or work rapidly or energetically:
2. to push or force one's way; jostle or shove.
3. to be aggressive, especially in business or other financial dealings.
4. Slang. to earn one's living by illicit or unethical means.
5. Slang. (of a prostitute) to solicit clients.

Origin of hustle

1675-85; Dutch husselen, variant of hutselen to shake, equivalent to hutsen to shake + -el- -le

Examples for hustle

You hustle this big bully into the ship, and keep him covered.

Her hustle has started to pay off and she started a 14-date national tour in early November.

Halfway to the park, the hustle of Goma and outlying villages faded behind him.

Summer vacations should offer a hiatus from the hustle but at the Hamptons everyone is selling or pushing someone or something.

"We must hustle, if we want to get to Uncle Ike's before dark," Tom declared.

Anna, you hustle up some engraved notices to get around to all our friends.

But the officers refused to let him go back, and began to hustle him forward.

By the time I found it the train was ready to start and I had to hustle.

Titanic Thompson could beat you at cards, hustle you at golf, and bet you on anything, so long as the odds were in his favor.

Back then she was “forced,” but soon she started to hustle on corners “willingly,” and was paid for sex.