hustle

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsbuncobunco gamebunkobunko gameconconfidence trickconfidence gamecon gamestingflimflam

   Broaderswindle

   Narrowersting operation
2. 2.

   a rapid active commotion

   Synonymsbustleflurryadofussstir

   Broadercommotion

Other forms of hustle

plural

hustles·

past tense

hustled·

present participle

hustling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hustle

What does hustle mean?

hustle means "cause to move furtively and hurriedly". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hustle?

hustle has 2 syllables: hus-tle. The stress falls on "hus". In IPA it is /ˈhʌsəl/.

What is another word for hustle?

Close synonyms include bustle, bustle about, pluck, roll, bunco. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hustle a common word?

hustle is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.