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Hustle vs Yesterday - What's the difference?

hustle | yesterday |

As nouns the difference between hustle and yesterday

is that hustle is a state of busy activity while yesterday is the day immediately before today; one day ago.

As a verb hustle

is to rush or hurry.

As an adverb yesterday is

on the day before today.

hustle

English

Verb

  • To rush or hurry.
  • I'll have to hustle to get there on time.
  • * 1922 , (Sinclair Lewis), Chapter 12
  • Men in dairy lunches were hustling' to gulp down the food which cooks had ' hustled to fry
  • To con or deceive; especially financially.
  • The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.
  • To bundle, to stow something quickly.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • *
  • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A state of busy activity.
  • A type of disco dance.
  • Derived terms

    * hustle and bustle * hustler * hustly

    Anagrams

    *

    References

    yesterday

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The day immediately before today; one day ago.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Hughes Mearns)
  • , title= , passage=Yesterday , upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …}}
  • The (recent) past, often disparaging.
  • * 1606 (William Shakespeare), (Macbeth) , 5.5
  • All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday , of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}

    Usage notes

    * The term yesterdays is unusual and often poetic for the recent past, e.g. "all our yesterdays have come back to haunt us."

    Derived terms

    * born yesterday

    Adverb

    (-)
  • On the day before today
  • As soon as possible
  • Synonyms

    * the last day (Ireland )

    Antonyms

    * tomorrow

    See also

    * hesternal * today * tomorrow night * tonight * last night * nudiustertian English pro-forms English temporal location adverbs 1000 English basic words