| 单词 | hustle |
| 释义 | hustle (once / 1010 pages) 1vn 2vn To hustle something means to hurriedly push it along. If you overslept, you'll have to hustle out of the house to get to work on time. Hustle comes from the Dutch word for "shake" or "toss." As a noun, a hustle is a busy, hurried scene, like the hustle of the subway at rush hour. We also call the act of swindling a hustle, because it happens so fast. As a verb, hustle can either mean to swindle someone or to hurry them, or to work hard. You can hustle someone out the door. If you hustle, you can earn good tips as a waiter. WORD FAMILYhustle: hustled, hustler, hustles, hustling+/hustler: hustlers USAGE EXAMPLESRyan marvels at how hard he practices, how calm he is on game day, and how much the offense feeds off his hustle. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) During one skirmish, Siatta said, he hit a Taliban fighter carrying a machine gun as he hustled across a bridge. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) They checked I.D.s and hustled the young men toward a row of police vans. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) 1 1v move or cause to move energetically or busily Syn|Hyper bustle, bustle about move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 2v cause to move furtively and hurriedly The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater Hyper displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 3n a rapid active commotion 2Syn|Hyper ado, bustle, flurry, fuss, stir commotion, din, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, tumult the act of making a noisy disturbance 1v sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity Syn|Hyper pluck, roll steal take without the owner's consent 2v pressure or urge someone into an action Hyper persuade cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm 3v get by trying hard she hustled a free lunch from the waiter Hyper have, receive get something; come into possession of 4n a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property Syn|Hypo|Hyper bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, sting sting operation a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) cheat, rig, swindle the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme |
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