Synonyms for hustle
ˈhʌs əlhus·tle

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1. bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflamnoun

   a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

   Synonyms:
   confidence game, bunco, insect bite, convict, bunko, confidence trick, stir, fuss, flurry, stinging, bunko game, con game, gyp, ado, yard bird, bustle, bunco game, pang, con, sting, inmate, yardbird, flimflam, bite

2. bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stirverb

   a rapid active commotion

   Synonyms:
   confidence game, bunco, snow flurry, tizzy, dither, bickering, squabble, flap, bicker, bunko, confidence trick, spat, tiff, hassle, stir, flurry, bunko game, con game, gyp, ado, fuss, pettifoggery, pother, bustle, bunco game, trouble, con, sting, splash, flimflam, bother

3. hustleverb

   cause to move furtively and hurriedly

   "The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater"

   Synonyms:
   pluck, roll, bustle about, bustle

4. bustle, bustle about, hustleverb

   move or cause to move energetically or busily

   "The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance"

   Synonyms:
   pluck, roll, bustle about, bustle

5. hustle, pluck, rollverb

   sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

   Synonyms:
   roll, vagabond, hook, wind, ramble, cull, wrap, range, rob, pick, stray, rove, wave, pluck, deplumate, twine, surcharge, soak, overcharge, pull off, cast, flap, pull, wander, gazump, plunk, plume, bustle about, revolve, roll up, swan, deplume, roll out, pick off, tramp, turn over, bustle, undulate, tear, drift, tweak, seethe, displume, fleece, roam, wheel

6. hustleverb

   get by trying hard

   "she hustled a free lunch from the waiter"

   Synonyms:
   pluck, roll, bustle about, bustle

7. hustleverb

   pressure or urge someone into an action

   Synonyms:
   pluck, roll, bustle about, bustle

Matched Categories

1. • Move
   • Persuade
   • Receive
   • Swindle

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1. hustleverb

   Synonyms:
   push, jostle, justle, elbow, crowd

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1. hustleverb

   Synonyms:
   jostle

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1. List of paraphrases for "hustle":

   scam

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How to use hustle in a sentence?

1. Donald Gould:

   It passes a lot of time and I’m homeless; that’s my hustle out here.

2. Terrence Ross:

   Everybody was just going extreme tonight. We were playing with a lot of energy, a lot of hustle, any time you play like that, you're going to give yourself a good chance.

3. kevin gates:

   Anything lost, can be found again expect for time wasted. A vision without action is merely a dream. Its the action that's pride, its the hustle, its the persistence.

4. Purvi Raniga:

   Dreams. All this hustle for my dreams. All tries and failures for my dreams. All encounters of difficulties for my dreams. All flash of light in the end of tunnel for my dreams. Purvi Raniga.

5. Rudyard Kipling:

   And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.