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  • verb Present participle of hustle.

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Examples

  • You have spent these last ten years in active, quick decisions, accumulating energy, push, drive -- what you call hustling; while I have been trying to see into things a little, trying to find out what is worth hustling for -- whether anything is.

    Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

  • "I guess if hustling is what it takes to win, that's what I'm going to do to help us win."

    USATODAY.com - An ugly win, a worthy champ 2002

  • But Perez, had he been hustling from the second the ball left Zeile's bat instead of loafing it because he thought it was a homer (the ball did hit the top of the left-field wall), he would've scored no problem.

    Subway Series off to perfect start 2000

  • Marlo only want’s to control the streets which will catch up to him in the end, it always does (i. e) The goal of hustling is to get out the game not to control It, we learned that from Stringer Bell … Quote from Mcnulty and Bodie “The game is rigged” ….

    What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • And even what is called their hustling method can truly be said to cut both ways, or hustle both ways; for if they hustle in, they also hustle out.

    What I Saw in America 1905

  • Boys are more interested in hustling, which is a quick way of making a living, rather than making the commitment to study.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Murray Wardrop 2011

  • Boys are more interested in hustling, which is a quick way of making a living, rather than making the commitment to study.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Murray Wardrop 2011

  • Gone were the large extravagant stands, and in were the country stands full of independent labels hustling their way through the new music industry.

    MusicDish e-Journal 2010

  • Gone were the large extravagant stands, and in were the country stands full of independent labels hustling their way through the new music industry.

    MusicDish e-Journal 2010

  • It acknowledged the "sensitive" nature of the transaction and laid bare the kind of hustling that is common when private galleries do business with major institutions, but which is usually conducted in secret: "There is also extra pressure as Chris is getting married next week and I suspect he may be less willing than previously to wait for an extended period in terms of finance."

    Victoria Miro, queen of arts 2010

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