hustle

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1. in. to move rapidly; to hurry.

□ Come on, hustle, you guys.

□ It’s late. I’ve got to hustle.

2. n. hurried movement; confusion.

□ All the hustle and confusion made it hard to concentrate.

□ I can’t work when there is all this hustle around me.

3. n. a scheme to make money; a special technique for making money. (Underworld. This includes drug ealing, prostitution, and other vice activities.)

□ Each of these punks has a hustle—a specialty in crime.

□ We all know what Bart’s hustle is.

4. in. to use one’s special technique for making money.

□ He’s out there on the streets hustling all the time.

□ I gotta go hustle. I need some bread.

5. tv. to use a scheme on a person to try to make money; to con someone.

□ Don’t try to hustle me, sister. I know which end is up.

□ Sam is always trying to hustle people.

6. tv. to attempt to seduce someone.

□ Bart is hustling Tracy.

□ I think that Tracy’s hustling Max.