Hustle vs. Grind — What's the Difference?

Push roughly; jostle

A blade's grind is its cross-sectional shape in a plane normal to the edge. Grind differs from blade profile, which is the blade's cross-sectional shape in the plane containing the blade's edge and the centre contour of the blade's back (meaning the shape of the blade when viewed from the side, i.e.

Obtain illicitly or by forceful action

Reduce (something) to small particles or powder by crushing it

Engage in prostitution

Rub or cause to rub together gratingly

A state of great activity

(of a dancer) gyrate the hips erotically

A fraud or swindle

A crushing or grating sound or motion

To move or act energetically and rapidly

Hard dull work

To push or force one's way.

A dancer's erotic gyration of the hips

To act aggressively, especially in business dealings.

To reduce to small bits or crush to a fine powder

To obtain something by deceitful or illicit means; practice theft or swindling.

To shape, sharpen, or refine with friction

To solicit customers. Used of a pimp or prostitute.

To rub (two surfaces) together harshly; gnash

To misrepresent one's ability in order to deceive someone, especially in gambling.

To bear down on harshly; crush

To push or convey in a hurried or rough manner

To oppress or weaken gradually or persistently

To cause or urge to proceed quickly; hurry

To operate by turning a crank

To sell or get by questionable or aggressive means

To instill or teach by persistent repetition

To pressure into buying or doing something

To perform the operation of grinding something.

To misrepresent one's skill in (a game or activity) in order to deceive someone, especially in gambling

To become crushed, pulverized, or powdered by friction

The act or an instance of jostling or shoving.

To move with noisy friction; grate

Energetic activity; drive.

Past tense and past participle grind·ed(grīndĭd) To ride a skateboard, a snowboard, or skis over a grind rail or narrow surface, often with the board or skis at right angles to the direction of movement.

(Slang) An illicit or unethical way of doing business or obtaining money; a fraud or deceit

(Informal) To devote oneself to study or work

To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.

Past tense and past participle grind·ed(grīndĭd) Slang To rotate the pelvis erotically, as while dancing or performing a striptease.

(intransitive) To rush or hurry.

The act of grinding.

(transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.

A crunching or grinding noise.

(transitive) To con, swindle, or deceive; especially financially.

A specific grade or degree of pulverization, as of coffee beans

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

Bits of ground coffee; grounds.

(informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.

(Informal) A laborious task, routine, or study

(informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.

(Informal) A student who works or studies excessively.

(informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.

(Slang) An erotic rotation of the pelvis.

To dance the hustle, a disco dance.

(transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.

(informal) To work.

(transitive) To shape with the force of friction.

(informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.

(metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.

A state of busy activity.

(intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.

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

To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.

(preceded by definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle.

To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.

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

(transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.

(slang) An act of prostitution.

To rotate the hips erotically.

To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.

(slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.

To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.

(video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.

A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

(transitive) To operate by turning a crank.

A rapid bustling commotion

To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.

Cause to move furtively and hurriedly;

To automatically format and indent code.

Move or cause to move energetically or busily;

To instill through repetitive teaching.

Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

To eat.

To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.

To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.

The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.

Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.

A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.

A tedious and laborious task.

A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.

One who studies hard.

Clipping of grindcore

(slang) Hustle; hard work. en

A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.

To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.

To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.

To study hard for examination; - commonly used with away; as, to grind away at one's studies.

To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.

To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.

To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.

To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.

To perform hard and distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.

The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.

Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study.

A student that studies hard; a dig; a wonk.

An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively

Hard monotonous routine work

The act of grinding to a powder or dust

Press or grind with a crunching noise

Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together;

Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;

Work hard;

Dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced