| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Hustle.[Websters]
2. To be troubled or worried. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have jostled, pressed, jogged or nudged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be devilled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have crowded or squashed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be disordered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have plighted or nonplussed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be jumbled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have shamed or disarrayed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be muddled.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb hustle.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (hustle) | 1. Cause to move furtively and hurriedly; "The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater".[Wordnet]. 2. Move or cause to move energetically or busily.[Wordnet]. 3. Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity.[Wordnet]. 4. Get by trying hard; "she hustled a free lunch from the waiter".[Wordnet]. 5. Pressure or urge someone into an action.[Wordnet]. 6. To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.[Websters]. 7. To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: hustling, hustled, hustles, hustler, hustlers, hustlingly and hustledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "HUSTLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1715. (references) |
Specialty Definition: hustle
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] hus'l. To shake together in confusion; to push or crowd.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Health | Attempt to obtain drug customers. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A rush or hurry. (references) | 2: [Noun] A type of dance. (references) | 3: [Verb] (intransitive) To rush or hurry. I'll have to hustle to get there on time. (references) | 4: [Verb] (transitive) To con or deceive. The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal. (references) |
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Common Expressions: hustle
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Hustle & Flow | Hustle & Flow is a movie directed by Craig Brewer, and co-produced by John Singleton.-- It won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. (references) | ||
| Hustle (BBC) | Hustle is a British television drama series made by Kudos Film & Television for BBC One. It follows a group of London-based con artists as they attempt to dupe money out of their victims, or marks. They only con those who they feel deserve it, citing the (sometimes) first rule of the con, "You can never cheat an honest man" (or woman). (references) | ||
| Hustle (dance) | Hustle is a catchall name for many disco or nightclub partner social dances which were extremely popular in the 1970's. Today it mostly refers to a 3-count version of the New York Hustle, which itself was a catchall name. (references) | ||
| Kung Fu Hustle | Kung Fu Hustle is a martial arts film first released in Hong Kong in 2004. It was released for general US debut on April 22, 2005 after showing in Los Angeles and New York for two weeks. The North American Version of its DVD was released on August 8, 2005. (references) | ||
| The Hustle | The Hustle (2004) was the fifth album released by the trio known as G. Love & Special Sauce. G. Love & Special Sauce are, G. Love (lead vocals, guitar, and harmonica), Jeffrey Clemens (percussion and background vocals), and Jimmy Jazz Prescott (string bass). (references) | ||
| The Hustle Game | The Hustle is a free turn-based and text-based web browser-based multiplayer online game aimed at an older audience. The Hustle is written in near-pure XHTML and CSS, giving it compatibility in all new browsers, while not requiring the user to download anything to play. (references) | ||
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