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[Dutch husselen, to shake, from Middle Dutch hustelen frequentative of hutsen.]

verb: -tled, -tling, -tles.

transitive verb

To jostle or shove roughly.

To convey in a hurried or rough manner: hustled the prisoner into a van.

To cause or urge to proceed quickly: hustled the board into a quick decision.

To gain by energetic effort: hustled a hot lunch.

Slang

To sell or get by questionable or aggressive means: hustled stolen watches; hustling spare change.

To pressure into buying or doing something: a barfly hustling the other customers for drinks.

To misrepresent one’s skill in (a game or activity) in order to deceive someone, especially in gambling: hustle pool.

intransitive verb

To jostle and push.

To work or move energetically and rapidly: We hustled to get dinner ready on time.

To act aggressively, especially in business dealings.

Slang

To obtain something by deceitful or illicit means; practice theft or swindling.

To solicit customers. Used of a pimp or prostitute.

To misrepresent one’s ability in order to deceive someone, especially in gambling.

noun

The act or an instance of jostling or shoving.

Energetic activity; drive.

Slang An illicit or unethical way of doing business or obtaining money; a fraud or deceit: “the most dangerous and wide-open drug hustle of them all” (Newsweek)

hustle

1. to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.

2. to push or force one’s way; jostle or shove.

3. to be aggressive, esp. in business or other financial dealings.

4. Slang. to earn one’s living by illicit or unethical means.

5. Slang. (of a prostitute) to solicit clients.

6. a fast, lively, popular ballroom dance evolving from Latin American, swing, rock, and disco dance styles, with a strong basic rhythm and simple step pattern augmented by strenuous turns, breaks, etc.

EXAMPLE: you steal a hat worth 20 bucks…then u find some poor idiot to buy it from you for 50….

or…..

Some people shoot dice or play cards and the dice have weights to always land on certain numbers or you have the cards stacked,……lol…u hustled them…GOOD JOB!!

P.S. stop listening to that crappy music.