Word Finder - hustled

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To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.

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To rush or hurry.

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

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To bundle; to stow something quickly.

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To con or deceive; especially financially.

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

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

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To obtain by illicit or forceful action.

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To sell sex; to work as a pimp.

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To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.

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To dance the hustle, a disco dance.

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To work.

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To put a lot of effort into one's work.

New converts had to be attended to - always welcomed, and never hustled away.

She squeezed Sofi's hand and was soon hustled out of the way by a nurse and his aide.

He himself scattered the cavalry opposed to him and hustled the Dutch infantry into St Amand, where they were promptly surrounded.

Exhausted Martha was hustled to her bed and snuggled next to SB, the patiently waiting stuffed owl.

Some textbook must have dictated speed as the panacea for grief, and Martha was hustled out the door like a bride late for her wedding.

Never mind he spent three years constantly riding the bench, hoping against hope for a miracle, as he practiced, cheered and hustled with unbridled enthusiasm.

The local FBI had stepped into the picture and hustled action on the body, tentatively identified as Billie Wassermann—perhaps on an alphabetical basis only.

It may be noted that the more famous of the persons alleged by partisans of subsequent pretenders to have been hustled out of the world for their connexion with the secret are the empress Josephine, the duc d'Enghien and the duc de Berri.

The Kapp coup in Berlin, which in some of its aspects sprang from similar anxieties in Prussia, gave the signal for political action in Munich, and at a midnight sitting the Bavarian Socialist Ministry was somewhat unceremoniously hustled out of office - it is alleged under military pressure - and a Coalition Cabinet under von Kahr installed.

The local FBI had stepped into the picture and hustled action on the body, tentatively identified as Billie Wassermann—perhaps on an alphabetical basis only.

Later on, I hustled about gettin ' out voters who had jags on or who were too lazy to come to the polls.