Hustle vs. Rustle — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Hustle and Rustle
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Hustle
Push roughly; jostle
They were hissed and hustled as they went in
Rustle
To move with soft fluttering or crackling sounds
The leaves rustled in the breeze.
Hustle
Obtain illicitly or by forceful action
Linda hustled money from men she met
Rustle
To move or act energetically or while making such sounds
Mice rustled across the floor.
Hustle
Engage in prostitution
She would hustle for a few dollars
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Rustle
To steal livestock, especially cattle.
Hustle
A state of great activity
The hustle and bustle of the big cities
Rustle
To cause to rustle
Rustled the newspaper.
Hustle
A fraud or swindle
The hustles being used to avoid the draft
Rustle
To obtain or produce by energetic effort
Rustled up some food in the kitchen.
Hustle
To move or act energetically and rapidly
We hustled to get dinner ready on time.
Rustle
To steal (livestock, especially cattle).
Hustle
To push or force one's way.
Rustle
A soft crackling sound similar to the movement of dry leaves.
Hustle
To act aggressively, especially in business dealings.
Rustle
A movement producing such a sound.
Hustle
To obtain something by deceitful or illicit means; practice theft or swindling.
Rustle
(ergative) To move (something) with a soft crackling sound.
Hustle
To solicit customers. Used of a pimp or prostitute.
Rustle
(transitive) To make or obtain in a lively, energetic way.
Rustle up
Hustle
To misrepresent one's ability in order to deceive someone, especially in gambling.
Rustle
(transitive) To steal (cattle or other livestock).
Hustle
To push or convey in a hurried or rough manner
Hustled the prisoner into a van.
Rustle
To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.
He is coming; I hear his straw rustle.
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.
Hustle
To cause or urge to proceed quickly; hurry
Hustled the board into a quick decision.
Rustle
To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.
Hustle
To sell or get by questionable or aggressive means
Hustled stolen watches.
Hustling spare change.
Rustle
To steal; - used of livestock and esp. of cattle.
Hustle
To pressure into buying or doing something
A barfly hustling the other customers for drinks.
Rustle
To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
Hustle
To misrepresent one's skill in (a game or activity) in order to deceive someone, especially in gambling
Hustle pool.
Rustle
A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.
When the noise of a torrent, the rustle of a wood, the song of birds, or the play of lambs, had power to fill the attention, and suspend all perception of the course of time.
Hustle
The act or an instance of jostling or shoving.
Rustle
The light noise like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
Hustle
Energetic activity; drive.
Rustle
Make a dry crackling sound;
Rustling silk
The dry leaves were rustling in the breeze
Hustle
(Slang) An illicit or unethical way of doing business or obtaining money; a fraud or deceit
"the most dangerous and wide-open drug hustle of them all" (Newsweek).
Rustle
Take illegally;
Rustle cattle
Hustle
To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
Hustle
(intransitive) To rush or hurry.
I'll have to hustle to get there on time.
Hustle
(transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
Hustle
(transitive) To con, swindle, or deceive; especially financially.
The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.
Hustle
To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
Hustle
(informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
Hustle
(informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
Hustle
(informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
Hustle
To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
Hustle
(informal) To work.
Hustle
(informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
Hustle
A state of busy activity.
Hustle
A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
Hustle
(preceded by definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle.
Hustle
(prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
Hustle
(slang) An act of prostitution.
Hustle
To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
Hustle
To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.
Leaving the king, who had hustled along the floor with his dress worfully arrayed.
Hustle
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
Hustle
A rapid bustling commotion
Hustle
Cause to move furtively and hurriedly;
The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater
Hustle
Move or cause to move energetically or busily;
The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance
Hustle
Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
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