Verb

(impell)

To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation (contrast with propel, to compel or drive extrinsically).

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To drive forward; to propel an object.

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.

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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.