Word Finder - hustling

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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.

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Act of one who hustles.

Then you came hustling up here, alone.

Dean didn't stop to answer as he broke into a jog with Fred hustling to keep up.

The air is filled with the bleating of calves and sheep, and the hustling of oxen, as if a pastoral valley were going by.

Despite living in a poverty-stricken area, Curtis and his mother were able to afford the best of material goods thanks to her drug hustling.

Army broke through the Bulgarian line between the Zletovska and Redki Buku inclusive, hustling the defenders back on the 3rd and 4th to the upper Bregalnitsa.

Very few apiaries in the United Kingdom contain more than a hundred hives; consequently the British bee-keeper has no need for employing the forceful or " hustling " methods found necessary in America, where the honey-crop is gathered in car-loads and the hives numbered by thousands.

Its stormy plot and hustling crowd scenes play directly to the uninhibited, spontaneous style that has always been BRB 's main strength.