hustleverb
uk/ˈhʌs.əl/us/ˈhʌs.əl/hustle verb (PUSH)
[ T usually + adv/prep ] to make someone move quickly by pushing or pulling them along:
After giving his speech, Johnson was hustled out of the hall by bodyguards.
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Fast and rapid
- a mile a minute idiom
- apace
- as fast as your legs would carry you idiom
- as if it is going out of style idiom
- at a rate of knots idiom
- crash
- fleet
- have a heavy foot idiom
- high-speed
- hotfoot
- in the twinkling of an eye idiom
- Jack Robinson
- lickety-split
- lightning
- mile
- rapid-fire
- smartly
- souped-up
- spread like wildfire idiom
- swift
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hustle verb (PERSUADE)
[ I or T ] mainly US informal to try to persuade someone, especially to buy something, often illegally:
to hustle for business/customers
They made a living hustling stolen goods on the streets.
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Urging & persuading
- argumentation
- blag
- brainwash
- bring
- browbeat
- butter
- get sth out of sb
- incite
- persuasion
- preach
- press-gang
- prevail on/upon sb
- proselytize
- rush sb into (doing) sth
- sucker sb into sth
- swing
- talk sb down
- talk sb out of sth
- twist
- work on sb
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hustlenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈhʌs.əl/us/ˈhʌs.əl/hustle noun [ U ] (ACTION)
mainly US energetic action:
The team showed a lot of determination and hustle.
hustle and bustle
noise and activity:
I love the hustle and bustle of the marketplace.
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Busy and active
- a hive of activity/industry idiom
- arena
- be (as) busy as a bee idiom
- be all go idiom
- be at work idiom
- be back in harness idiom
- buzz
- foot
- girlie swot
- hard-working
- harness
- have (got) sth on
- have sth on your plate idiom
- knee-deep
- mad
- spread
- spurt
- stimulating
- tie sb up
- well away idiom
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hustle noun [ U ] (DISHONEST)
US a dishonest way of making money:
Advertising turns every achievement into a hustle.
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Cheating & tricking
- a numbers game idiom
- bad faith
- bamboozle
- bilk
- blackmail
- fleece
- gag
- honeyfuggle
- hoodwink
- impersonate
- jape
- jiggery-pokery
- poison
- ruse
- scam
- scammer
- screw
- sell sb a bill of goods idiom
- shaft
- wool
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