Usually means: Persistent effort to achieve success.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hustle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hustle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hustle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hustle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hustle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hustle, hustle: Wordnik
  7. hustle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hustle: Wiktionary
  9. hustle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hustle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hustle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hustle, hustle: Dictionary.com
  13. hustle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hustle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hustle (Pink song), Hustle (TV series), Hustle (company), Hustle (dance), Hustle (disambiguation), Hustle (professional wrestling), Hustle, The Hustle (TV series), The Hustle (album), The Hustle (film), The Hustle (song), The Hustle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hustle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hustle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hustle: Rhymezone
  19. Hustle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hustle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hustle: Free Dictionary
  22. hustle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. hustle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hustle: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. hustle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hustle (disambiguation), hustle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hustle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hustle: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. hustle: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hustle, hustle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hustle: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. the hustle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hustled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
verb:  (intransitive) To rush or hurry.
verb:  (transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
verb:  (transitive) To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.
verb:  To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.
verb:  (informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
verb:  (informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
verb:  (informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
verb:  To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
verb:  (informal) To work.
verb:  (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
noun:  A state of busy activity.
noun:  A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
noun:  (preceded by a definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).
noun:  A scam or swindle.
noun:  (prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
noun:  (slang) An act of prostitution.
noun:  (informal) An activity, especially to achieve a desired goal or make money.

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