Meaning

12 senses
  1. To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.

  2. (intransitive)To rush or hurry.

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

    sich beeilen, hetzen

    спеши́тьspešítʹ, торопи́тьсяtoropítʹsja

  3. (transitive)To bundle; to stow something quickly.

  4. (transitive)To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.

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

    betrügen, abziehen

    обма́ныватьobmányvatʹ, обману́тьobmanútʹ, надува́тьnaduvátʹ

  5. To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.

  6. (informal)To obtain by illicit or forceful action.

  7. (informal)To sell sex; to work as a pimp.

  8. (informal)To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.

  9. (informal)To serve (a clientele) as a prostitute.

  10. To dance the hustle, a disco dance.

  11. (informal)To work.

  12. (informal)To put a lot of effort into one's work.

More definitions
  • pressure or urge someone into an action
  • cause to move furtively and hurriedly
  • get by trying hard
  • sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

Examples

28 sentences
  1. Now I want you to hustle.

    ruТеперь я хочу, чтобы ты поторопился.

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  2. Are you hustling me?

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  3. Tom has to hustle.

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  4. We need to hustle.

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  5. I want you to hustle.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to rush or hurry:
to con or deceive:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to rush or hurry:
to con or deceive:

Origin

From Dutch husselen or by metathesis from Dutch hutselen (“to shake up”), a frequentative

From Dutch husselen or by metathesis from Dutch hutselen (“to shake up”), a frequentative of hutsen (“to stir, to move something (back and forth)”).

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Forms

hustles, hustling, hustled, hustled
Base formhustle · to hustle
3rd person singularhustles
Present participlehustling
Past simplehustled
Past participlehustled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhustle
he, she, ithustles

Past simpleLesson

all personshustled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hustled
he, she, ithas hustled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hustle

Synonyms

12 synonyms
to rush:flyA1
to work:laborA2
to deceive:defraud
to work as a pimp:pimp
to be a prostitute:sell one's body
Close in meaning
  • sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity:pluckroll
  • move or cause to move energetically or busily:bustlebustle about

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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