'Hustle' definitions:
Definition of 'hustle'
(from WordNet)
noun
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam]
noun
verb
Cause to move furtively and hurriedly; "The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater"
verb
Move or cause to move energetically or busily; "The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance" [syn: bustle, bustle about, hustle]
verb
Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity [syn: hustle, pluck, roll]
verb
Get by trying hard; "she hustled a free lunch from the waiter"
verb
Pressure or urge someone into an action
Definition of 'Hustle'
From: GCIDE
- Hustle \Hus"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hustled; p. pr. & vb. n. Hustling.] [D. hustelen to shake, fr. husten to shake. Cf. Hotchpotch.] To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hustle'
From: GCIDE
- Hustle \Hus"tle\, v. i. To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry. [1913 Webster]
- Leaving the king, who had hustled along the floor with his dress worfully arrayed. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hustle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accelerate,
- action,
- activity,
- adventuresomeness,
- adventurousness,
- aggression,
- aggressiveness,
- allemande,
- ambitiousness,
- assault,
- barn dance,
- bear,
- bear upon,
- bearing,
- belly dance,
- bob,
- bobble,
- bolero,
- boogaloo,
- boost,
- bounce,
- bourree,
- boutade,
- branle,
- breakdown,
- buck,
- buffeting,
- bull,
- bulldoze,
- bump,
- bump against,
- bundle,
- bunny hop,
- bunt,
- bustle,
- butt,
- butt against,
- cakewalk,
- can-can,
- celerity,
- cha-cha,
- Charleston,
- chase,
- chatter,
- chonchina,
- clog,
- coerce,
- conga,
- cotillion,
- country dance,
- courante,
- cram,
- crowd,
- dash,
- dash off,
- dash on,
- didder,
- dig,
- dispatch,
- do double duty,
- double-time,
- drive,
- drive on,
- dust,
- dynamism,
- eject,
- elbow,
- elbowing,
- elucubrate,
- enterprise,
- enterprisingness,
- expedite,
- expedition,
- expeditiousness,
- falter,
- fan dance,
- fandango,
- festinate,
- flamenco,
- fling,
- flurry,
- flutter,
- fly,
- folk dance,
- force,
- forcefulness,
- forge ahead,
- forward,
- fox trot,
- galliard,
- gavotte,
- german,
- get going,
- get moving,
- get-up-and-get,
- get-up-and-go,
- getup,
- go,
- go ahead,
- go all out,
- go-ahead,
- go-getting,
- go-to-itiveness,
- goad,
- gumption,
- haste,
- hasten,
- hasten on,
- have an ague,
- head,
- helter-skelter,
- hie on,
- Highland fling,
- hit the ball,
- hokey-pokey,
- hootchy-kootchy,
- hopak,
- hornpipe,
- hotfoot,
- hula,
- hula-hula,
- hurry,
- hurry along,
- hurry on,
- hurry through,
- hurry up,
- hurry-scurry,
- hurtle,
- hustle up,
- initiative,
- interpretative dance,
- jab,
- jactitate,
- jam,
- jar,
- jarring,
- jig,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jolt,
- jostle,
- jostling,
- jounce,
- jump,
- kola,
- Lambeth Walk,
- lancers,
- leap,
- limbo,
- lindy,
- lose no time,
- lucubrate,
- make haste,
- make things hum,
- mambo,
- mazurka,
- Mexican hat dance,
- minuet,
- monkey,
- move quickly,
- movement,
- nip,
- nudge,
- nudging,
- overwork,
- ox dance,
- pachanga,
- pas de deux,
- pas seul,
- paso doble,
- passamezzo,
- peabody,
- pile drive,
- plunge,
- poke,
- polka,
- polonaise,
- Portland fancy,
- post,
- pour it on,
- precipitate,
- press,
- press on,
- pressure,
- prod,
- punch,
- push,
- push on,
- push through,
- pushfulness,
- pushiness,
- pushing,
- pushingness,
- quadrille,
- quake,
- quaver,
- quicken,
- quiver,
- race,
- railroad through,
- rain dance,
- ram,
- ram down,
- rattle,
- reel,
- rigadoon,
- rumba,
- run,
- run against,
- rush,
- rush along,
- rush through,
- rustle,
- samba,
- scamper,
- scramble,
- scratch,
- scurry,
- scuttle,
- shake,
- shimmy,
- shiver,
- shock,
- shoot ahead,
- shoulder,
- shove,
- shoving,
- shudder,
- slave,
- snake dance,
- speed,
- speed along,
- speed up,
- speediness,
- spirit,
- sprint,
- spunk,
- spur,
- spurt,
- square dance,
- stampede,
- step lively,
- stir,
- strathspey,
- stress,
- sweat,
- swiftness,
- swim,
- sword dance,
- tamp,
- tango,
- tap dance,
- tarantella,
- tear,
- thrust,
- tremble,
- trepak,
- turkey trot,
- twist,
- twitter,
- up-and-comingness,
- urge,
- valse,
- venturesomeness,
- venturousness,
- vibrate,
- Virginia reel,
- waltz,
- war dance,
- Watusi,
- whip,
- whip along,
- wobble,
- work hard,
- work late,
- work overtime