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- Dictionaryhustle/ˈhʌsl/
verb
- 1. push roughly; jostle: "they were hissed and hustled as they went in" Similar
- 2. obtain illicitly or by forceful action: informal North American "Linda hustled money from men she met"
noun
- 1. a state of great activity: "the hustle and bustle of the big cities"
- 2. a fraud or swindle: informal North American "the hustles being used to avoid the draft"
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to try to persuade someone, especially to buy something, often illegally: to hustle for business / customers. They made a living hustling stolen goods on the streets. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. hustle.
The meaning of HUSTLE is to crowd or push roughly : jostle, shove. How to use hustle in a sentence.
HUSTLE meaning: 1. to make someone move quickly by pushing or pulling them along: 2. to try to persuade someone…. Learn more.
Hustle definition: to proceed or work rapidly or energetically. See examples of HUSTLE used in a sentence.
If you hustle someone, you try to make them go somewhere or do something quickly, for example by pulling or pushing them along.
As a noun, a hustle is a busy, hurried scene, like the hustle of the subway at rush hour. We also call the act of swindling a hustle, because it happens so fast. As a verb, hustle can either mean to swindle someone or to hurry them, or to work hard.
Definition of hustle verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
HUSTLE definition: 1. to make someone move somewhere, especially by pushing them quickly: 2. to try to persuade…. Learn more.
Definition of hustle noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
to urge, prod, or speed up: Hustle your work along. to pressure or coerce (a person) to buy or do something: Our waiter hustled us into ordering more than we could eat. to obtain by aggressive and often illicit means: He could always hustle a buck or two from some sucker.
