Hustling

Word HUSTLING
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Definitions and meanings of "Hustling"

What do we mean by hustling?

To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.

To rush or hurry.

To bundle; to stow something quickly.

To con or deceive; especially financially.

To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.

To obtain by illicit or forceful action.

To sell sex; to work as a pimp.

To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.

To dance the hustle, a disco dance.

To work.

To put a lot of effort into one's work.

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The word "hustling" in example sentences

You have spent these last ten years in active, quick decisions, accumulating energy, push, drive -- what you call hustling; while I have been trying to see into things a little, trying to find out what is worth hustling for -- whether anything is. ❋ Maud Wilder Goodwin (N/A)

"I guess if hustling is what it takes to win, that's what I'm going to do to help us win." ❋ Unknown (2002)

But Perez, had he been hustling from the second the ball left Zeile's bat instead of loafing it because he thought it was a homer (the ball did hit the top of the left-field wall), he would've scored no problem. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Marlo only want’s to control the streets which will catch up to him in the end, it always does (i. e) The goal of hustling is to get out the game not to control It, we learned that from Stringer Bell … Quote from Mcnulty and Bodie “The game is rigged” …. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And even what is called their hustling method can truly be said to cut both ways, or hustle both ways; for if they hustle in, they also hustle out. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Boys are more interested in hustling, which is a quick way of making a living, rather than making the commitment to study. ❋ Murray Wardrop (2011)

Gone were the large extravagant stands, and in were the country stands full of independent labels hustling their way through the new music industry. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It acknowledged the "sensitive" nature of the transaction and laid bare the kind of hustling that is common when private galleries do business with major institutions, but which is usually conducted in secret: "There is also extra pressure as Chris is getting married next week and I suspect he may be less willing than previously to wait for an extended period in terms of finance." ❋ Unknown (2010)

A good deal of his cross examination consisted of questioning about his former rap group, as defense attorneys elicited that the group produced a CD containing "hustling" songs titled "We Be Thuggin, '" "Let Off A Shot," and "Gangsta." ❋ Unknown (2008)

People of color should view "hustling" as a "good middle ground between straightness and more extreme forms of lawbreaking." ❋ Unknown (2008)

It wasn't only Small's Paradise law, it was the law of every tavern that wanted to stay in business-never get involved with anything that could be interpreted as "impairing the morals" of servicemen, or any kind of hustling off them. ❋ X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 (1964)

Charlie told me their rules for employees: no lateness, no laziness, no stealing, no kind of hustling off any customers, especially men in uniform. ❋ X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 (1964)

Commenting on the fact that the Press is sensible enough to use divorce as a news item, he says: 'The newspapers are full of an astonishing hilarity about the rapidity with which hundreds of thousands of human families are being broken up by the lawyers; and about the undisguised haste of the "hustling" judges who carry on the work.' ❋ Patrick Braybrooke (N/A)

Malcolm gained his reputation "hustling" on the streets of ❋ Norman Coombs (N/A)

His "hustling" activities were not confined to London, and his abrupt appearances and disappearances were fully accepted by the Young Adventurers as part of the day's work. ❋ Agatha Christie (1933)

In a city where everybody was "hustling," everybody, as they phrased it, "on the make," why should anyone take a second glance at Peter Gudge? ❋ Unknown (1920)

The result of that fresh "hustling" was the appointment of the Dilution Commissioners, a second Munitions Act amending the first, and a vast expansion all over the country of the organisation which had seemed so vast before. ❋ Unknown (1916)

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