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US
/ˈhəsəɫ/
]
[ UK /hˈʌsəl/ ]
[ UK /hˈʌsəl/ ]
VERB
-
move or cause to move energetically or busily
The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance - pressure or urge someone into an action
-
get by trying hard
she hustled a free lunch from the waiter -
cause to move furtively and hurriedly
The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater - sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
NOUN
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- a rapid active commotion
How To Use hustle In A Sentence
- Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared. The Berrybender Narratives
- During the hustle of everyone getting underway someone tripped the anchor that we used to stabilize our dinghy.
- For years, I had identified with what I saw in my community: the gang members, drug dealers, street hustlers and even the winos sitting in the alley.
- Located far away from the hustle and bustle of a metropolis, the choice of venue was well and truly acknowledged by all concerned.
- The manor is a world away from the hustle and bustle of city life. The Sun
- We need to hustle if we're going to make this flight.
- Take the hustlers, beggars and streetwalkers who ply their dubious services along Beach Road and some of the other popular streets in the area, for example.
- The 'work hard, get good grades and go to college to get a job' mantra is dead," says twenty-something self-confessed hustler Scott Gerber, author of Never Get a "Real" Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke (Wiley, December 2010). Emily Bennington: 'Entitled' to What, Being Unemployed?
- All four of them were hustled into the back seat of the limo like 4 year olds and sat down on the furthest seat from the door as they could.
- The immense man, brandishing his recovered certificates, plunged forward to encounter them, shouting in Arabic, hustled them back, kicked them, struck at the camels with a stick till those in front receded upon those behind and the street was blocked by struggling beasts and resounded with roaring snarls, the thud of wooden bales clashing together, and the desperate protests of the camel-drivers, one of whom was sent rolling into a noisome dust heap with his turban torn from his head. The Garden of Allah
