hustling

Pluralhustlings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of hustle.

   A man near the bus station was hustling tourists with a rigged card game.

   Security guards were hustling the reporters toward the side exit.

   Note

   The object decides which hustle is meant. With none, it is hurrying or working hard (she was hustling to finish on time); hustling tourists with a rigged game is conning them, and hustling reporters toward an exit is pushing them along. Over a pool table it means playing badly on purpose so that others will challenge you.

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The activity of someone who hustles, such as rushing about, jostling through a crowd, working hard, or conning others.

   Years of hustling on the pool circuit had made him wary of friendly strangers.

   The shouts and hustlings of the street vendors carried up to our hotel window.

   Similarbustle, conning

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