What is the difference between hustle and grind?
hustle | grind |
To rush or hurry.
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To con or deceive; especially financially.
To bundle, to stow something quickly.
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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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To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
To shape with the force of friction.
(metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
(sports) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
To oppress, hold down or weaken.
(slang) To rotate the hips erotically.
(slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
(video games) To repeat a task in order to gain levels or items.
To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
To instill through repetitive teaching.
(slang, Hawaii) To eat.
(slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
A tedious task.
A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
(archaic, slang) One who studies hard; a swot.
(subgenre of heavy metal)
As verbs the difference between hustle and grind
is that hustle is to rush or hurry while grind is to reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.As nouns the difference between hustle and grind
is that hustle is a state of busy activity while grind is the act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.hustle
English
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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grind
English
(wikipedia grind)Verb
(see usage notes below )- grind a lens
- grind an axe
- This corn grinds well.
- Steel grinds to a sharp edge.
- Grinding lessons into students' heads does not motivate them to learn.
- Eh, brah, let's go grind .
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Usage notes
* In the sports and video game senses, the past participle and past tense form grinded is often used instead of the irregular form ground. * Historically, there also existed a past participle form grounden, but it is now archaic or obsolete. * When used to denote sexually suggestive dancing between two partners, the past participle and past tense form grinded is almost always used.Derived terms
* bump and grind * have an axe to grindNoun
(en noun)- This bag contains espresso grind .
- This homework is a grind .
