hustle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To move or act energetically and rapidly: We hustled to get dinner ready on time.
2. v. To push or force one's way.
3. v. To act aggressively, especially in business dealings.
4. v. Slang To obtain something by deceitful or illicit means; practice theft or swindling.
5. v. Slang To solicit customers. Used of a pimp or prostitute.
6. v. Slang To misrepresent one's ability in order to deceive someone, especially in gambling.
7. v. To push or convey in a hurried or rough manner: hustled the prisoner into a van.
8. v. To cause or urge to proceed quickly; hurry: hustled the board into a quick decision.
9. v. Slang To sell or get by questionable or aggressive means: hustled stolen watches; hustling spare change.
10. v. Slang To pressure into buying or doing something: a barfly hustling the other customers for drinks.
11. v. Slang To misrepresent one's skill in (a game or activity) in order to deceive someone, especially in gambling: hustle pool.
12. n. The act or an instance of jostling or shoving.
13. n. Energetic activity; drive.
14. n. 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).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To shake or throw together confusedly or in a disorderly manner; shove roughly, as by crowding; jostle: as, to hustle things out of the way; he was hustled off the course.
2. To push or crowd; move about with difficulty, as in a crowd; shuffle or shamble hurriedly.
3. To make haste; move or act energetically: as, come, hustle now.
4. To shake up the halfpence in the game of pitch and hustle. See below.
5. To inveigle into dishonest games.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To rush or hurry.
2. v. transitive To con or deceive; especially financially.
3. v. transitive To bundle, to stow something quickly.
4. v. To dance the hustle (see Wikipedia:Hustle (dance))
5. v. To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
6. v. To sell sex, to work as a pimp.
7. v. To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
8. n. A state of busy activity.
9. n. A type of disco dance. See Wikipedia:Hustle (dance) for more information.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly.
2. v. To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. move or cause to move energetically or busily
2. v. pressure or urge someone into an action
3. n. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
4. n. a rapid active commotion
5. v. sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
6. v. get by trying hard
7. v. cause to move furtively and hurriedly