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to try to persuade someone, especially to buy something, often illegally: to hustle for business / customers. They made a living hustling stolen goods on the streets.
1. a. : to crowd or push roughly : jostle, shove. had been hustled into a jail cell with the other protesters. b. : to convey forcibly or hurriedly. … grabbed him by the arm and hustled him out the door … John Dos Passos. c. : to urge forward precipitately. hustling tourists from one museum to the next. 2. a.
to try to persuade someone, especially to buy something, often illegally: to hustle for business / customers. They made a living hustling stolen goods on the streets. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. hustle.
Synonyms for HUSTLING: driving, diligent, industrious, hungry, dynamic, enterprising, motivated, eager; Antonyms of HUSTLING: indifferent, disinterested, uninterested, lackadaisical, casual, apathetic, easygoing, unexcited.
to try to persuade someone, especially to buy something, often illegally: to hustle for business / customers. They made a living hustling stolen goods on the streets.
To pressure into buying or doing something: a barfly hustling the other customers for drinks. c. To misrepresent one's skill in (a game or activity) in order to deceive someone, especially in gambling: hustle pool.
If you hustle, you go somewhere or do something as quickly as you can. You'll have to hustle if you're to get home for supper. [VERB] He hustled straight up the aircraft steps without looking round or waving goodbye. [VERB preposition] They had finished the exam and the teacher was hustling to get the papers gathered up. [VERB to-infinitive]
an inducing by fraud, pressure, or deception, especially of inexperienced or uninformed persons, to buy something, participate in an illicit scheme or dishonest gambling game, etc.
to sell in or work (an area), esp. by high-pressure tactics: The souvenir venders began hustling the town at dawn. to sell aggressively: to hustle souvenirs. to jostle, push, or shove roughly.
verb. /ˈhʌsl/ Verb Forms. [transitive] hustle somebody + adv./prep. to make somebody move quickly by pushing them in a rough aggressive way. He grabbed her arm and hustled her out of the room. I was hustled into a waiting car. She was hustled away by some police officers. Want to learn more?
