to hustle
57
4.7
- verb
- /ˈhʌsəl/
- Informal
:
conseguir
- I mean, I just drive and hustle and drive and try to make some money.
is a movie about a guy who's trying to hustle this older woman.
- is a movie about a guy who's trying to hustle this older woman.
- And the most surprising thing was that many of these people hustled at multiple things.
- No, I, I, I hustle things out of my apartment.
- We were willing to do and out hustle other people.
- You get up early, you get up late, you can hustle in these platforms and create context.
- Start hustling to start your side hustle so that it can become your full time passion.
- He's, I presume, hustling to kind of make it work.
- Some people hustle retail, you know, they're they sell cars.
- But for to go back real quick to to hustle to get that hustle going.
Examples
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Were you trying to hustle me?
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I gave it six months, squirreling away the money I made hustling games or jobs at the track.
Fiction book (1995) -
I have tried to hustle my way every single day.
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We were willing to do and out hustle other people.
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You should also be prepared to hustle like the devil to promote and market the book on your own.
Academic text (2009) -
Whatever side you're on, you will have to hustle to get tickets for the ten remaining performances.
Fiction book (2000) -
Many Mexican firms hustled and started selling into the giant U.S. market.
Academic text (1997) -
For the next few days the Little Fellow hustled and shoveled in order to buy that New Year's dinner.
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Until then, keep strong, keep grinding it out, keep hustling and keep believing.
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To succeed in the competitive market, she had to hustle and network with influential people.
Synonyms
262
4.0
To try to sell something forcefully, often illegal goods
Antonyms
Compounds
How Forceful
- Offensive
91
6.4
- Informal
57
4.7
149
4.2
472
2.7
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hustle also came to mean 'to get something by energetic effort or persuasion' because its root idea is 'to push', so you push hard to win or sell. That's why to hustle can mean working very hard to get what you want and sometimes using pushy or dishonest methods.