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▪ I. hustle, v.|ˈhʌs(ə)l|
Also 8 hussell, 8–9 hussle.
[ad. Du. husselen, hutselen, to shake, to toss, MDu. hutselen to shake the money in the game of hustle-cap, EFris. hütseln, to toss about, to move hither and thither, a frequentative of Du. hutsen, MHG. hutzen; cf. Du. hotsen, G. (dial.) hotzen, hotzeln of similar meaning (see hotch). The stems hot-, hut- appear in a number of formations in both High and Low German dialects, all implying a shaking movement. The development of sense 2 is exclusively English.]
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a. trans. To shake to and fro, toss (money in a hat or cap, in the game of hustle-cap). Also absol. Obs.
1684Otway Atheist 11, As the boys do by their farthings, hustle them in a hat together, and go to heads or tails for them. 1736Fielding Pasquin v, Places, requiring learning and great parts, Henceforth shall all be husled in a hat, And drawn by men deficient in them both. 1755Johnson, To Hustle, to shake together in confusion. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iii. vii. §15 When they hustle, all the half⁓pence pitched at the mark are thrown into a hat held by the player who claims the first chance.
b. To shake about.
1851S. Judd Margaret i. ii, She saw a blue-jay washing itself..and hustling the water with its wings.
2. a. To push or knock (a person) about roughly or unceremoniously; to jostle in a rough or violent fashion; said esp. of a number who subject an individual to this treatment as a method of assaulting or robbing him.
1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) I. ii. 21, I was hussled by those rebellious rapscallions. 1798Ann. Reg. 56 Mrs. Dearling..was hustled by a gang of pickpockets. 1844Alb. Smith Adv. Mr. Ledbury x. (1886) 31 Two or three..gathered round the fresh comers..apparently with the intention of hustling them. 1879Sala Paris herself again (1880) II. xi. 164 The business of the bludgeon men was to hustle and maltreat people.
fig.1796Burke Regic. Peace ii. Wks. VIII. 234 The proposed fraternity is hustled in the crowd of those treaties. 1883Fortn. Rev. June 784 Liking nothing better than hustling a Dissenter in print.
b. with complement: To push, thrust, force in such a way into or out of a certain position or through a certain space. Also transf. of the action of the wind, tide, etc.
1755Man No. 21. 3 When the clergyman ended his discourse, the people..directly hussell'd the freethinker into my cart. 1768J. Byron Narr. Patagonia (ed. 2) 243 The ship had been hustled through the Granadillos in the night. 1824Mechanic's Mag. No. 36. 126 The tide sometimes runs so rapidly, as to hustle the ship on shore, before the sails can be made to act. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxvi, Mr. Chuckster was pushed and hustled to the office again. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (1844) II. xxxvi. 30 My packages..and Indian articles, minerals, fossils..I shall hustle them altogether. 1883Pall Mall G. 27 Dec. 3/1 The enormous Budget for 1884 is being successfully hustled through the French Senate. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 242 The husband who had just been hustled into his grave.
c. To urge, impel, push forward (into some action) in a rough unfastidious fashion.
1887Sir R. H. Roberts In the Shires ii. 28 He hustles the cob into a canter, and makes for the nearest ford. 1890Spectator 4 Jan., Women hustled into speech on all sorts of subjects, are like flowers planted in water-glasses with their roots exposed to the light.
d. U.S. colloq. To obtain, produce, or serve by hustle or pushing activity. Also with up.
In some contexts spec. = ‘to steal’ (cf. sense 2 a).
1840Southern Lit. Messenger VI. 414/2 Can't you go out to the woodpile and hustle me up a few chips to start this fire? 1908Grand Dec. 614 Anita was really hungry and hustled up the luncheon in..an unromantic, business-like sort of way. 1914R. Grau Theatre of Science 80 He had to write his own scenarios, direct the productions and ‘hustle props’. 1926J. Black You can't Win vi. 65 Don't think because you couldn't hustle a can that you ain't entitled to your coffee. 1940S. Lewis Bethel Merriday iii. 35 When you grow up..you try to squirm into prison, or get a nice job hustling hash..anything to avoid going on the stage. 1950[see fix n. 5]. 1953W. Burroughs Junkie (1972) ix. 86 ‘Do you want to score?’ he asked. ‘I'm due to score in a few minutes. I've been trying to hustle the dough.’ 1957P. Mansfield Final Exposure ix. 134 Perhaps they can hustle up some coffee. 1967M. M. Glatt et al. Drug Scene iii. 34 Hustling is a generic term which usually refers to any number of strategies addicts may use to obtain drugs. 1970H. E. Roberts Third Ear 8/2 Hustle, hustling, to be aggressively, actively engaged in the acquisition of goods and money.
e. To sell or serve (goods, etc.), esp. in an aggressive, pushing manner. N. Amer. slang.
1887Grip (Toronto) 5 Mar. 6/2 She hustled the hash at Gilhooley's on Blank St. 1894T. R. Dewar Ramble round Globe 84 Almost every second man you meet..is now either ‘hustling lumber’ or farming at four or five dollars a week. 1973Black World Aug. 56/2 He hustled the watch to a barber for 35 bills.
3. a. intr. To push roughly against. Also absol. To crowd together, jostling each other.
1823Byron Juan ix. lxxxii, Ambassadors began as 't were to hustle Round the young man. 1837Lytton Athens II. 180 Their tall vessels..driven and hustling the one against the other. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 497 The woman will accuse some man of having hustled against her.
b. intr. To push or elbow one's way.
1855Thackeray Newcomes I. xxxv. 346 The..society..that hustles into the churches on public festivals. 1857Mrs. Gatty Par. fr. Nat. Ser. ii. (1868) 98 The tortoise began to hustle under the leaves and rubbish again.
4. intr. To move hastily, to hurry, to bustle; to work busily, push one's way actively, ‘make a push’.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 84 Haymakers, hustling from the rain to hide. 1826Scott Woodst. xxii, The King..had hustled along the floor. c1867Edison in Temple Mag. (1897) Sept. 885/1 I've got so much to do, and life is so short, that I am going to hustle. 1903Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 5/2 The ‘Decapod’ will ‘hustle’ in true American fashion. 1906‘O. Henry’ Four Million 62 Do you think I'm going to let you hustle for wages while I philander in the regions of high art? 1908G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock v. 87, I decided that..I'd hustle over to the nearest trust company.
5. intr. To engage in prostitution. slang.
In quot. 1954 used transitively in sense ‘to ‘work’ an area, soliciting as a prostitute’.
1930J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel v. 411 She showed him a snapshot of her steady... I don't hustle when he's in town. 1954J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday i. 4 If you were hustling a state you should do honour to that state. 1957C. MacInnes City of Spades ii. ii. 117 ‘You're positive she's not hustling?’ ‘Muriel..is no harlot.’ Ibid. 120 Hustling with Jumble queers. 1959Listener 10 Dec. 1048/1 She..revolted in revenge against her family, ‘hustled’ in Piccadilly, hated men as clients, took a ponce. 1960Guardian 23 Sept. 26/7 Several clubs have been threatened with proceedings for keeping a brothel it they allow prostitutes to hustle on the premises. 1970Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 8 Feb. 11/1 To put it bluntly, she was hustling, and liked the rewards in the shape of cash and jewelry.
▪ II. hustle, n.|ˈhʌs(ə)l|
[f. hustle v.]
The act of hustling.
1. The act of shaking together: in pitch and hustle = hustle-cap, pitch-and-toss.
1715State Quacks 24 Playing at Pitch and Huzle. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iii. viii. §15 Pitch and Hustle.
2. The act of pushing or jostling roughly.
1803W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 351 The hustle of anarchy. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. v. iii, A thousand-handed hustle and jostle. 1837Mrs. Sherwood Henry Milner iii. xi. 216 They clung fast to him, and it would have been impossible for him to have extricated himself without coming to a downright hustle.
3. U.S. Pushing activity; ‘push’. Also with a. (Cf. move n. 6.)
1892Home Missionary (N.Y.) July 120 The hustle and stir of our day. 1898Daily Chron. 3 Dec. 5/1 With characteristic ‘hustle’, excursions in the United States have already been organised to Hawaii. 1902W. N. Harben Abner Daniel ii. 19, I..told 'em to git a hustle on the'rse'ves. 1908[see drive n. 1 i]. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Jan. 21/1 Earl Balfour is a veteran hockey player who well remembers the secret to success—hustle.
4. A swindle, racket; a means of deception or fraud; a source of income; a paid job. slang (orig. U.S.).
1963R. I. McDavid Mencken's Amer. Lang. 729 Hustle, a racket which one pushes to get his bread. 1965‘Malcolm X’ Autobiogr. vi. 87 Each of the military services had their civilian-dress eyes and ears picking up anything of interest to them, such as hustles being used to avoid the draft..or hustles that were being worked on servicemen. 1969R. Pharr in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 63, I got me a good hustle. I write over $200 worth of numbers a day, which gives me a cool 40 bucks. 1972Observer 20 Aug. 7/4, I was stark broke..from the horses..and the cards. It didn't really matter because I was on a hustle. |