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hustle

English

  1. 🔊 a rapid active commotion
  2. 🔊 a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
  3. 🔊 pressure or urge someone into an action
  4. 🔊 cause to move furtively and hurriedly
    “The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater”
  5. 🔊 get by trying hard
    “she hustled a free lunch from the waiter”
  6. 🔊 sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
  7. 🔊 move or cause to move energetically or busily
    “The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 josear to hustle
  2. 🔊 tráfago hustle, bustle
  3. 🔊 timar to hustle, to con, to hoodwink, to swindle, to scam, to grift, to trick, to diddle

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