hustles in English

noun

1

busy movement and activity.

the hustle and bustle of the big cities

2

a fraud or swindle.

I had to work my way up from scams to hustles to grifts to short-cons to swindles to long-cons to heists to inside jobs to stings to capers to scores.

verb

1

force (someone) to move hurriedly or unceremoniously in a specified direction.

they hustled him into the back of a horse-drawn wagon

2

obtain by forceful action or persuasion.

the brothers headed to New York to try and hustle a record deal

3

engage in prostitution.

In 1998, he tried to be more careful about protecting himself, but he spent the summer hustling for money to pay for his apartment and for school.

noun

con, sting, flimflam, bunco, confidence game, confidence trick, bunko, gyp, con game
ado, stir, flurry, bustle, fuss

verb

manhandle, rush, work, coerce, pluck, bustle about
manhandle, push, shove, thrust, frogmarch, whisk, bundle
rush, hurry, be quick, hasten, speed up, press on, get a move on, step on it, get moving, get cracking, shake a leg
work, work hard, strive, endeavor, apply oneself, exert oneself, pull out all the stops
coerce, force, compel, pressure, pressurize, badger, pester, hound, harass, nag, harry, urge, goad, prod, spur, browbeat, bulldoze, bludgeon, steamroller, strong-arm, railroad, fast-talk
pluck, roll
bustle about, bustle

Use "hustles" in a sentence

1. 9 A waitress bustles, the ambience hustles.

2. There's sort of illegal hustles, like you run a barbershop out of your cell.

3. There's pretty illegal hustles: You run a tattoo parlor out of your own cell.

4. Jimmie Allen Admires Kevin Hart’s Work Ethic: “Nobody Hustles Harder Than Kevin Hart” The “Freedom Was A Highway” singer-songwriter has found success but keeps grinding by Jessica

5. I won't, as long as you agree to no more scams, no more cons, no more hustles, no more hoodwinks, no more gambits, no more stratagems and no more bamboozles.

6. Miranda Wylie is a SXSW Conference Programmer who only recently started living for the 'gram, and with too many side hustles added another: the SEEN podcast, featuring several Bedpost Confessions performers talking presumed vs

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8. There’s been so may scams, hustles and Bribings over the years that it just becomes an annoyance, but there’s never been a time it’s been more than a few Dr or sold a fake bit of silver, nor has it ever been threatening