Hustle

Verb

 * 1)  To rush or hurry.
 * I'll have to hustle to get there on time.
 * 1) * 1922,, Babbit Chapter 12
 * Men in dairy lunches were hustling to gulp down the food which cooks had hustled to fry
 * 1)  To con or deceive.
 * The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.
 * 1)  To bundle, to stow something quickly.
 * 2) * 1922,, 
 * There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
 * 1) to dance the hustle (see Hustle (dance))
 * 2) To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
 * 3) To sell sex, to work as a pimp.
 * 4) To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.

Noun

 * 1) A state of busy activity.
 * 2) A type of disco dance. See Hustle (dance) for more information.

Synonyms for Hustle
hurry, rush, fly, run, push, move, crowd, dash, race, spur, act, drive, scurry, hasten, expedite, bustle, accelerate.

Antonyms for Hustle
slow, delay, dawdle, trifle, lag, postpone, loaf, procrastinate, idle, lounge, defer, dissipate, loll, stall.

Derived terms

 * hustle and bustle
 * hustler
 * hustly

Thesaurus
Charleston, Highland fling, Lambeth Walk, Mexican hat dance, Portland fancy, Virginia reel, Watusi, accelerate, action, activity, adventuresomeness, adventurousness, aggression, aggressiveness, allemande, ambitiousness, assault, barn dance, bear, bear upon, bearing, belly dance, bob, bobble, bolero, boogaloo, boost, bounce, bourree, boutade, branle, breakdown, buck, buffeting, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, bundle, bunny hop, bunt, bustle, butt, butt against, cakewalk, can-can, celerity, cha-cha, chase, chatter, chonchina, clog, coerce, conga, cotillion, country dance, courante, cram, crowd, dash, dash off, dash on, didder, dig, dispatch, do double duty, double-time, drive, drive on, dust, dynamism, eject, elbow, elbowing, elucubrate, enterprise, enterprisingness, expedite, expedition, expeditiousness, falter, fan dance, fandango, festinate, flamenco, fling, flurry, flutter, fly, folk dance, force, forcefulness, forge ahead, forward, fox trot, galliard, gavotte, german, get going, get moving, get-up-and-get, get-up-and-go, getup, go, go ahead, go all out, go-ahead, go-getting, go-to-itiveness, goad, gumption, haste, hasten, hasten on, have an ague, head, helter-skelter, hie on, hit the ball, hokey-pokey, hootchy-kootchy, hopak, hornpipe, hotfoot, hula, hula-hula, hurry, hurry along, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hurtle, hustle up, initiative, interpretative dance, jab, jactitate, jam, jar, jarring, jig, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jostling, jounce, jump, kola, lancers, leap, limbo, lindy, lose no time, lucubrate, make haste, make things hum, mambo, mazurka, minuet, monkey, move quickly, movement, nip, nudge, nudging, overwork, ox dance, pachanga, pas de deux, pas seul, paso doble, passamezzo, peabody, pile drive, plunge, poke, polka, polonaise, post, pour it on, precipitate, press, press on, pressure, prod, punch, push, push on, push through, pushfulness, pushiness, pushing, pushingness, quadrille, quake, quaver, quicken, quiver, race, railroad through, rain dance, ram, ram down, rattle, reel, rigadoon, rumba, run, run against, rush, rush along, rush through, rustle, samba, scamper, scramble, scratch, scurry, scuttle, shake, shimmy, shiver, shock, shoot ahead, shoulder, shove, shoving, shudder, slave, snake dance, speed, speed along, speed up, speediness, spirit, sprint, spunk, spur, spurt, square dance, stampede, step lively, stir, strathspey, stress, sweat, swiftness, swim, sword dance, tamp, tango, tap dance, tarantella, tear, thrust, tremble, trepak, turkey trot, twist, twitter, up-and-comingness, urge, valse, venturesomeness, venturousness, vibrate, waltz, war dance, whip, whip along, wobble, work hard, work late, work overtime

Verb

 * Czech: pospíchat,


 * Finnish:, hoppuilla


 * Finnish: ,

Noun

 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish: hustle

Anagrams

 * sleuth