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to try to persuade someone, especially to buy something, often illegally: to hustle for business / customers. They made a living hustling stolen goods on the streets.
1. a. : to crowd or push roughly : jostle, shove. had been hustled into a jail cell with the other protesters. b. : to convey forcibly or hurriedly. … grabbed him by the arm and hustled him out the door …—John Dos Passos. c. : to urge forward precipitately.
to try to persuade someone, especially to buy something, often illegally: to hustle for business / customers. They made a living hustling stolen goods on the streets. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Urging & persuading.
to try to persuade someone, especially to buy something, often illegally: to hustle for business / customers. They made a living hustling stolen goods on the streets.
To sell or get by questionable or aggressive means: hustled stolen watches; hustling spare change. b. To pressure into buying or doing something: a barfly hustling the other customers for drinks.
Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense hustles , present participle hustling , past tense, past participle hustled. 1. verb. If you hustle someone, you try to make them go somewhere or do something quickly, for example by pulling or pushing them along. The guards hustled Harry out of the car.
to obtain by aggressive and often illicit means: He could always hustle a buck or two from some sucker. to beg; solicit. to sell in or work (an area), especially by high-pressure tactics: The souvenir vendors began hustling the town at dawn. to sell, promote, or publicize in a lively, vigorous, or aggressive manner:
