Hassle vs Hustle - What's the difference?
hustle | hassle |
To rush or hurry.
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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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Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.
A fight or argument.
An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.
To trouble, to bother, to annoy.
To pick a fight or start an argument.
As verbs the difference between hustle and hassle
is that hustle is to rush or hurry while hassle is to trouble, to bother, to annoy.As nouns the difference between hustle and hassle
is that hustle is a state of busy activity while hassle is trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.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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hassle
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Noun
(en noun)- I went through a lot of hassle to be the first to get a ticket.
Verb
(hassl)- The unlucky boy was hassled by a gang of troublemakers on his way home.