Hustle
['hʌs(ə)l] or ['hʌsl]
Definition
(verb.) pressure or urge someone into an action.
(verb.) cause to move furtively and hurriedly; 'The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater'.
(verb.) get by trying hard; 'she hustled a free lunch from the waiter'.
(verb.) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity.
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Definition
(v. t.) To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
(v. i.) To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Push, jostle, justle, elbow, crowd.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See JOSTLE]
[See JOSTLE]
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Definition
v.t. to shake or push together: to crowd with violence.—n. Hus′tler an energetic fellow.
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Examples
- You don't know how a fellow has to hustle to keep this kind of thing going. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Some people revel in surroundings of hustle and bustle, and find therein no hindrance to great accomplishment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The deputies shouted at him and hustled him, and he seems to have been very much frightened. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To the slaughter with you, and roughly we were hustled to the steep incline that led to the chambers far below which let out upon the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- You may die, or fail, and then Topsy be hustled off to auction, spite of all I can do. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Amy was up at dawn, hustling people out of their beds and through their breakfasts, that the house might be got in order. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Hustling him roughly between them, they came immediately from the chamber, so quickly in fact that I was near to being apprehended. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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