hustle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
2. fiil To rush or hurry.

   “I'll have to hustle to get there on time.”

3. fiil To bundle; to stow something quickly.

   “There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.”

4. fiil To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.

   “The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.”

5. fiil To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.
6. fiil To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
7. fiil To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
8. fiil To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.

   “All my life, been hustling / And tonight is my appraisal / 'Cause I'm a hooker selling songs / And my pimp's a record label”

9. fiil To serve (a clientele) as a prostitute.

   “When I was in Morocco I wrote this play ("Playland Blues") about young kids who […] hustle old gay men and closet queens.”

10. fiil To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
11. fiil To work.
12. fiil To put a lot of effort into one's work.

    “Frazier and Gary worked for me for free -- for six months -- they didn't take any money from the house. They worked for tips. They both had other jobs, and they came in here and they hustled their ass.”

13. isim A state of busy activity.
14. isim A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.

    “'It's just natural for the folks here to be indolent,' she said. 'They just haven't got any hustle in them.'”

15. isim A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).
16. isim A scam or swindle.
17. isim An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
18. isim An act of prostitution.

    “Little Joe never once gave it away / Everybody had to pay and pay / A hustle here and a hustle there / New York City's the place”

19. isim An activity, especially to achieve a desired goal or make money.

    “Everybody's got a hustle.”