Hustle

Quick meaning: Hustle is a verb meaning To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.

Meaning

To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To rush or hurry.
2. (transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
3. (transitive) To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.
4. To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.
5. (informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
6. (informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
7. (informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.

Example Sentences

I'll have to hustle to get there on time.

The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.

Men in dairy lunches were hustling to gulp down the food which cooks had hustled to fry

When I was in Morocco I wrote this play ("Playland Blues") about young kids who […] hustle old gay men and closet queens.

Word Forms

• hustles
• hustling
• hustled

Synonyms for hustle

Depending on context, synonyms include fly, defraud, swindle, pimp, labor, stir.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bustle, stir, pluck, roll, fuss, gyp.

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