hustle

hustle is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
2. intransitive verb. To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.
3. noun. a rapid active commotion

   Synonyms: ado, bustle, flurry, fuss, stir

4. noun. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

   Synonyms: bunco, bunko, con, flimflam, gyp, sting

5. verb. pressure or urge someone into an action
6. verb. move or cause to move energetically or busily

   "The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance"

   Synonyms: bustle

7. verb. cause to move furtively and hurriedly

   "The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater"

8. verb. get by trying hard

   "she hustled a free lunch from the waiter"

9. verb. sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

   Synonyms: pluck, roll

Synonyms

ado, bustle, flurry, fuss, stir, bunco, bunko, con, flimflam, gyp, sting, pluck, roll

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hustle:

sleuth

Common word forms

hustled, hustler, hustles, hustling, hustlement

Words from these letters

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