hustle

• The business man finds that the hustle, the high rent, floating population and the keen competition of the city necessitates extraordinary care and daring to ensure success. —  The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"
• But the hustle is also indicative of a willingness to work, which is of vital importance for a young player like that.
• To others, not a few, all this hustle was an act in a domestic tragedy. —  The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900
• "I'm going to give you a hustle, and you'll find you can keep up better if you are in a suitable rig I'll take the chances of keeping just as I am Pierson's teeth came together with a click. —  Frank Merriwell's Races
• "Now I've got to hustle, as it's almost supper time Supper!" —  Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island

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