Huddle vs Hustle - What's the difference?
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a dense and disorderly crowd
(American football) a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
To crowd together as when distressed or in fear.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4
To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
To get together and discuss.
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
(American football) To form a huddle.
To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
* (John Locke)
To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on'', ''huddle up'', ''huddle together ).
* J. H. Newman
* (John Dryden)
* (Jonathan Swift)
To rush or hurry.
* 1922 , (Sinclair Lewis), Chapter 12
To con or deceive; especially financially.
To bundle, to stow something quickly.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
To sell sex, to work as a pimp.
To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
(informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.
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In intransitive terms the difference between huddle and hustle
is that huddle is to curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb while hustle is to rush or hurry.In transitive terms the difference between huddle and hustle
is that huddle is to do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together) while hustle is to bundle, to stow something quickly.huddle
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(en noun)Verb
(huddl)- During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within.
- George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Manhattan side. But that was not deemed plausible, Mr. Hirsch said.
- Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,makes a medley and confusion.
- Huddle up a peace.
- Let him forecast his work with timely care, / Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.
- Now, in all haste, they huddle on / Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.
hustle
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Verb
- I'll have to hustle to get there on time.
- Men in dairy lunches were hustling' to gulp down the food which cooks had ' hustled to fry
- The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.
- There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
