Meaning of HUSTLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'husul
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- [n] a rapid bustling commotion
- [n] a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- [v] move or cause to move energetically or busily; "The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance"
- [v] cause to move furtively and hurriedly; "The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater"
- [v] sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and esp. underhanded activity
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| | Synonyms: | | ado, bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, bustle, bustle, bustle about, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, flurry, fuss, gyp, pluck, roll, sting, stir |
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| | See Also: | | belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, cheat, commotion, din, displace, hasten, hie, hotfoot, move, pelt along, race, rig, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, rush, rush along, speed, steal, swindle, tumult | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
\Hus"tle\, v. i.
To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and
with confusion; a hurry.
Leaving the king, who had hustled along the floor with
his dress worfully arrayed. --Sir W.
Scott.
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