Hustle vs Shoot - 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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To launch a projectile.
# (label) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
# (label) To fire (a projectile).
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (label) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
# (label) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
# (label) To ejaculate.
# To begin to speak.
# (label) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
# To dismiss or do away with.
# To photograph.
To move or act quickly or suddenly.
# (label) To move very quickly and suddenly.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII
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# To go over or pass quickly through.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# (label) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
# (label) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
# To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
#* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)
# (label) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
# To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
#* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
#* (1800-1859)
# To send to someone.
(label) To act or achieve.
# (label) To lunge.
# (label) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
# To make the stated score.
(label) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
To develop, move forward.
# To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# To grow; to advance.
#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
#* (1700-1748)
# (label) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
# To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out .
#* Bible, (Psalms) xxii. 7
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
(label) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
* (Joseph Moxon) (1627-1691)
To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.(w)
* (1809-1892)
The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
* Evelyn
A photography session.
A hunt or shooting competition.
(professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
* Francis Bacon
* Drayton
A rush of water; a rapid.
(mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
(weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
A shoat; a young pig.
An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
(Webster 1913)
In intransitive terms the difference between hustle and shoot
is that hustle is to rush or hurry while shoot is to move very quickly and suddenly.In transitive terms the difference between hustle and shoot
is that hustle is to bundle, to stow something quickly while shoot is to penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.As an interjection shoot is
A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdainhustle
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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shoot
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shoten, from (etyl) .Verb
- If you please / To shoot an arrow that self way.
- There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.
- It didn't take me long to get there. I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
- Sheshoots the Stygian sound.
- Thy words shoot through my heart.
- These preachers make / His head to shoot and ache.
- If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals.
- an honest weaver as ever shot shuttle
- a pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores
- Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth.
- But the wild olive shoots , and shades the ungrateful plain.
- Well shot in years he seemed.
- Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot .
- They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.
- Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
- There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.
- two pieces of wood that are shot , that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel
- The tangled water courses slept, / Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "shoot")Derived terms
* like shooting fish in a barrel * re-shoot * shoot down * shooter * shoot from the hip * shoot from the lip * shoot one's bolt * shoot oneself in the foot * shoot one's mouth off * shoot one's wad * shoot the boots * shoot the bull * shoot the messenger * shoot upNoun
(en noun)- Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring.
- The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot .
- One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
- (Knight)
Derived terms
* (hunt or shooting competition) turkey shootEtymology 2
minced oath for (shit)Interjection
(en interjection)- Didn't you have a concert tonight?
- Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready...
