Hustle vs Flow - What's the difference?
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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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A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
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The rising movement of the tide.
Smoothness or continuity.
The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
(psychology) The state of being at one with.
Menstruation fluid
To move as a fluid from one position to another.
To proceed; to issue forth.
* Milton
To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
* Dryden
To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
* Bible, Joel iii. 18
* Prof. Wilson
To hang loosely and wave.
* A. Hamilton
To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb .
* Shakespeare
(computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
To cover with varnish.
To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
In lang=en terms the difference between hustle and flow
is that hustle is to bundle, to stow something quickly while flow is to discharge excessive blood from the uterus.As verbs the difference between hustle and flow
is that hustle is to rush or hurry while flow is to move as a fluid from one position to another.As nouns the difference between hustle and flow
is that hustle is a state of busy activity while flow is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.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.
Derived terms
* hustle and bustle * hustler * hustlyAnagrams
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flow
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Noun
Antonyms
* (movement of the tide) ebbExternal links
* (wikipedia "flow") *Verb
(en verb)- Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
- Tears flow from the eyes.
- Wealth flows from industry and economy.
- Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow .
- Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
- In that day the hills shall flow with milk.
- the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
- a flowing''' mantle; '''flowing locks
- the imperial purple flowing in his train
- The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- The river hath thrice flowed , no ebb between.
