hustle
To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
To rush or hurry.
Men in dairy lunches were hustling to gulp down the food which cooks had hustled to fry
To bundle; to stow something quickly.
There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.
To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.
(informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
(informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
(informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
(informal) To serve (a clientele) as a prostitute.
To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
(informal) To work.
(informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
A state of busy activity.
A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
'It's just natural for the folks here to be indolent,' she said. 'They just haven't got any hustle in them.'
A type of disco dance.
A scam or swindle.
Usually, it is a simple hustle. Someone pays me, I manufacture a story for them, and we trade it up the chain—from a tiny blog to Gawker to a website of a local news network to the Huffington Post to the major newspapers to cable news and back again, until the unreal becomes real.
(prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
(slang) An act of prostitution.
(informal) An activity, especially to achieve a desired goal or make money.
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