What is "hustle"

Hustle \Hus"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hustled; p. pr. & vb. n. Hustling.] [D. hustelen to shake, fr. husten to shake. Cf. Hotchpotch.] To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
--Macaulay.

Hustle \Hus"tle\, v. i. To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.

Leaving the king, who had hustled along the floor with his dress worfully arrayed.
--Sir W. Scott.

"pushing activity; activity in the interest of success," 1891, American English, from hustle (v.); earlier it meant "a shaking together" (1715). Sense of "illegal business activity" is by 1963, American English. As a name of a popular dance, by 1975.

1680s, "to shake to and fro" (especially of money in a cap, as part of a game called hustle-cap), metathesized from Dutch hutselen, husseln "to shake, to toss," frequentative of hutsen, variant of hotsen "to shake." "The stems hot-, hut- appear in a number of formations in both High and Low German dialects, all implying a shaking movement" [OED]. Related: Hustled; hustling. Meaning "push roughly, shove" first recorded 175

1. That of "hurry, move quickly" is from 181

2. \n\nThe key-note and countersign of life in these cities [of the U.S. West] is the word "hustle." We have caught it in the East. but we use it humorously, just as we once used the Southern word "skedaddle," but out West the word hustle is not only a serious term, it is the most serious in the language.

   [Julian Ralph, "Our Great West," N.Y., 1893]

   \nSense of "to get in a quick, illegal manner" is 1840 in American English; that of "to sell goods aggressively" is 1887.

n. 1 A state of busy activity. 2 A type of disco dance. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To rush or hurry. 2 (context transitive English) To con or deceive; especially financially. 3 (context transitive English) To bundle, to stow something quickly. 4 To dance the hustle, a disco dance. 5 To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge. 6 To sell sex, to work as a pimp. 7 To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money. 8 (context informal English) To put a lot of effort into one's work. 9 To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.(R:COED2: page=799)

1. n. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, sting, flimflam]

2. a rapid bustling commotion [syn: bustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir]

1. v. cause to move furtively and hurriedly; "The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater"

2. move or cause to move energetically or busily; "The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance" [syn: bustle, bustle about]

3. sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity [syn: pluck, roll]

Hustle is a British television drama series made by Kudos Film and Television and broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. Created by Tony Jordan and first broadcast in 2004, the series follows a group of con artists who specialise in "long cons"—extended deceptions which require greater commitment, but which return a higher reward than simple confidence tricks. The eighth and last series ended on 17 February 2012.

Hustle commonly refers to:

• Working hard from the bottom to the top spot (legal or illegal)
• The tradecraft of a hustler who deceives others by hustling, usually in sports
• A confidence trick perpetrated by a grifter or other scam artist
• Slang (chiefly American), meaning to seek money by criminal or shady enterprise, especially pimping and prostitution, and/or drug dealing

Hustle or The Hustle may also refer to:

The Hustle is a catchall name for some disco dances which were extremely popular in the 1970s. Today it mostly refers to the unique partner dance done in ballrooms and nightclubs to disco music. It has some features in common with swing dance. Its basic steps are somewhat similar to the Discofox, which emerged at about the same time and is more familiar in various European countries. In the 1970s there was also a line dance called the Hustle. Modern partner hustle is sometimes referred to as New York Hustle. People still do this dance today.

Hustle is a TV movie about baseball player Pete Rose created by ESPN Films that first broadcast on September 25, 2004. The movie follows Rose as he gambled on Major League Baseball while managing the Cincinnati Reds, then was caught and banned from baseball for life. The title, Hustle, is a reference to both Rose's gambling problem and his nickname, "Charlie Hustle."

The movie stars Tom Sizemore as Pete Rose and was directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

was a Japanese professional wrestling promotion managed by Nobuhiko Takada. Hustle can be described as an industry experiment to market the sports entertainment style of professional wrestling in Japan.

Hustle in film, may refer to:

• Hustle (1975 film), a neo-noir film starring Burt Reynolds as a private investigator
• Hustle (2004 film), an ESPN television film about Pete Rose
• Hustle (2015 film), an upcoming Hong Kong film

Hustle is a 1975 American neo-noir crime film directed by Robert Aldrich, and stars Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan, Eddie Albert and Ernest Borgnine.