hustle

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.

To rush or hurry.

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

To bundle; to stow something quickly.

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 con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.

The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.

To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.

A state of busy activity.

A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.

'It's just natural for the folks here to be indolent,' she said. 'They just haven't got any hustle in them.'

A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).

A scam or swindle.

An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.