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hustle
noun- an illegal enterprise, especially one involving swindling US, 1943
- Pickin’ pockets, why that’s a hustle for a lame. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 66, 1964
- Even though he was only twenty-three years old, he’d gotten big time without a hustle. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 214, 1965
- He introduced me to the sweetest “hustle” I’d ran into. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 73, 1967
- Get into a hustle that pays on account of he don’t have a trade, only a rich mama forgot who he is. — Elmore Leonard, Riding the Rap, p. 54, 1995
- effort, exertion, desire US, 1898
- There are times you have to show hustle, even if it’s false. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 16, 1970
▶ on the hustle- engaged in a career of swindling US
- The Bates family is sort of well known. There are three thousand of them. Most of the family is on the hustle. — Stephen Cannell, King Con, p. 91, 1997
- engaged in prostitution US
- “Well, what do you think, Tony?” “About what?” “Me being ... on the hustle.” — Richard Prather, The Peddler, p. 7, 1952
- “All you got is a little dose. You’ll be back on the hustle in two weeks.” — Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness, p. 36, 1960
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