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hustle
What does hustle mean?
hustle (verb): cause to move furtively and hurriedly.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use hustle in a sentence?
- The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce hustle?
/ˈhʌsəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does hustle come from?
From Dutch husselen or by metathesis from Dutch hutselen (“to shake up”), a frequentative of hutsen (“to stir, to move something (back and forth)”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “hustle” mean?
to add contents to so that it is full
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to advise, propose, counsel favorably
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cause to move furtively and hurriedly
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circulate or distribute or equip with
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