单词 | hustle |
释义 | hustlen. The act of hustling. 1. The act of shaking together: in pitch-and-hustle = hustle-cap, pitch-and-toss. ΚΠ 1715 State Quacks 24 Playing at Pitch and Huzle. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. viii. §15 Pitch and Hustle. 2. The act of pushing or jostling roughly. ΚΠ 1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 351 The hustle of anarchy. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. iii. 295 A thousand-handed hustle and jostle. 1837 M. M. Sherwood Henry Milner iii. xi. 216 They clung fast to him, and it would have been impossible for him to have extricated himself without coming to a downright hustle. 3. U.S. Pushing activity; ‘push’. Also with a. (Cf. move n. 3f.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > energy or enterprise undertakingc1400 enterprisec1450 energy1793 dynamism1831 go-aheadism1838 get-up1841 go-ahead1843 go-aheadness1847 drive1859 get-up-and-get1865 get-up-and-go1871 get-there-ativeness1883 push-and-go1885 hustle1892 go-getting1919 go-gettingness1928 dynamicism1947 go-go-go1954 1892 Home Missionary (N.Y.) July 120 The hustle and stir of our day. 1898 Daily Chron. 3 Dec. 5/1 With characteristic ‘hustle’, excursions in the United States have already been organised to Hawaii. 1902 W. N. Harben Abner Daniel ii. 19 I..told 'em to git a hustle on the'rse'ves. 1908 R. Kipling Lett. to Family iii. 25 ‘Hustle’ does not sit well on the national character... ‘Drive’, a laudable and necessary quality, is quite different. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Jan. 21/1 Earl Balfour is a veteran hockey player who well remembers the secret to success—hustle. 4. A swindle, racket; a means of deception or fraud; a source of income; a paid job. slang (originally U.S.). ΚΠ 1963 R. I. McDavid & D. W. Maurer Mencken's Amer. Lang. (new ed.) 729 Hustle, a racket which one pushes to get his bread. 1965 Malcolm X Autobiogr. vi. 87 Each of the military services had their civilian-dress eyes and ears picking up anything of interest to them, such as hustles being used to avoid the draft..or hustles that were being worked on servicemen. 1969 R. Pharr in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 63 I got me a good hustle. I write over $200 worth of numbers a day, which gives me a cool 40 bucks. 1972 Observer 20 Aug. 7/4 I was stark broke..from the horses..and the cards. It didn't really matter because I was on a hustle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). hustlev. a. transitive. To shake to and fro, toss (money in a hat or cap, in the game of hustle-cap). Also absol. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1684 T. Otway Atheist ii. 17 As the Boys do by their Farthings, hustle 'em in a Hat together, and go to Heads or Tails for 'em. 1736 H. Fielding Pasquin v. 61 Places, requiring Learning and great Parts, Henceforth shall all be husled in a Hat, And drawn by Men deficient in them both. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To Hustle, to shake together in confusion. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vii. §15 When they hustle, all the half~pence pitched at the mark are thrown into a hat held by the player who claims the first chance. b. To shake about. ΚΠ 1851 S. Judd Margaret (rev. ed.) i. ii She saw a blue-jay washing itself..and hustling the water with its wings. 2. a. To push or knock (a person) about roughly or unceremoniously; to jostle in a rough or violent fashion; said esp. of a number who subject an individual to this treatment as a method of assaulting or robbing him. ΚΠ 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. ii. 18 I was hussled by those rebellious rapscallions. 1800 Ann. Reg. 1798 (Otridge ed.) Chron. 56/2 Mrs. Dearling..was hustled by a gang of pickpockets. 1844 A. R. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury I. x. 128 Two or three..gathered round the fresh-comers..apparently with the intention of hustling them. 1879 G. A. Sala Paris herself Again II. xi. 164 The business of the bludgeon men was to hustle and maltreat people. b. with complement: To push, thrust, force in such a way into or out of a certain position or through a certain space. Also transferred of the action of the wind, tide, etc. ΚΠ 1755 Man No. 21. 3 When the clergyman ended his discourse, the people..directly hussell'd the freethinker into my cart. 1768 J. Byron Narr. Patagonia 243 The ship had been hustled through the Granadillos in the night. 1824 Mechanic's Mag. No. 36. 126 The tide sometimes runs so rapidly, as to hustle the ship on shore, before the sails can be made to act. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xx. 204 Mr. Chuckster was pushed and hustled to the office again. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xxxv. 30 My packages..and Indian articles, minerals, fossils..I shall hustle them altogether. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Dec. 3/1 The enormous Budget for 1884 is being successfully hustled through the French Senate. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 242 The husband who had just been hustled into his grave. c. To urge, impel, push forward (into some action) in a rough unfastidious fashion. ΚΠ 1877 R. H. Roberts Harry Holbrooke of Holbrooke Hall ii. 30 He hustles the cob into a canter, and makes for the nearest ford. 1890 Spectator 4 Jan. Women hustled into speech on all sorts of subjects, are like flowers planted in water-glasses with their roots exposed to the light. d. U.S. colloquial. To obtain, produce, or serve by hustle or pushing activity. Also with up. In some contexts spec. = ‘to steal’ (cf. sense 2a). ΚΠ 1840 Southern Literary Messenger 6 414/2 Can't you go out to the woodpile and hustle me up a few chips to start this fire? 1908 Grand Dec. 614 Anita was really hungry and hustled up the luncheon in..an unromantic, business-like sort of way. 1914 R. Grau Theatre of Sci. 80 He had to write his own scenarios, direct the productions and ‘hustle props’. 1926 J. Black You can't Win vi. 65 Don't think because you couldn't hustle a can that you ain't entitled to your coffee. 1940 S. Lewis Bethel Merriday iii. 35 When you grow up..you try to squirm into prison, or get a nice job hustling hash..anything to avoid going on the stage. 1950 H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 70/2 Fix. 1. An agreement, secured through bribery, chicanery, intimidation, whereby a criminal indictment is quashed, or the severity of a sentence or of a charge lessened... 2. Any arrangement by which laws, rules, or regulations are circumvented...‘his mob got a license (police permission) to hustle (steal) on the cannon (picking pockets) here. The fix is in solid.’ 1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie ix. 86 ‘Do you want to score?’ he asked. ‘I'm due to score in a few minutes. I've been trying to hustle the dough.’ 1957 P. Mansfield Final Exposure ix. 134 Perhaps they can hustle up some coffee. 1967 M. M. Glatt et al. Drug Scene in Great Brit. iii. 34 Hustling is a generic term which usually refers to any number of strategies addicts may use to obtain drugs. 1970 H. E. Roberts Third Ear 8/2 Hustle, hustling, to be aggressively, actively engaged in the acquisition of goods and money. e. To sell or serve (goods, etc.), esp. in an aggressive, pushing manner. North American slang. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > sell in specific manner retail1365 tap1478 retaliate1640 outsella1687 wholesale1792 to sell short1852 hustle1887 brand1909 oversell1928 package1946 soft-sell1958 test-market1958 mass-market1959 sales-drive1962 bundle1969 cross-sell1972 up-market1972 onsell1979 1887 Grip (Toronto) 5 Mar. 6/2 She hustled the hash at Gilhooley's on Blank St. 1894 T. R. Dewar Ramble round Globe 84 Almost every second man you meet..is now either ‘hustling lumber’ or farming at four or five dollars a week. 1973 Black World Aug. 56/2 He hustled the watch to a barber for 35 bills. 3. a. intransitive. To push roughly against. Also absol. To crowd together, jostling each other. ΚΠ 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IX lxxxii. 46 Ambassadors began as 'twere to hustle Round the young man. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens II. 180 Their tall vessels..driven and hustling the one against the other. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 497 The woman will accuse some man of having hustled against her. b. intransitive. To push or elbow one's way. ΚΠ 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxxv. 346 The society..that hustles into the churches on public festivals. 1857 M. Gatty Parables 2nd Ser. 98 The Tortoise began to hustle under the leaves and rubbish again. 4. intransitive. To move hastily, to hurry, to bustle; to work busily, push one's way actively, ‘make a push’. ΚΠ 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 84 Haymakers, hustling from the rain to hide. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. x. 252 The King..had hustled along the floor. c1867 Edison in Temple Mag. (1897) Sept. 885/1 I've got so much to do, and life is so short, that I am going to hustle. 1898 H. S. Canfield Maid of Frontier 177 I've got a warrant here for his arrest,..and you hustle. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 5/2 The ‘Decapod’ will ‘hustle’ in true American fashion. 1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million 62 Do you think I'm going to let you hustle for wages while I philander in the regions of high art? 1908 G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock v. 87 I decided that..I'd hustle over to the nearest trust company. 5. intransitive. To engage in prostitution. slang. In quot. 1954 used transitively in sense ‘to “work” an area, soliciting as a prostitute’. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (intransitive)] > practise prostitution to walk the street(s)1530 to play the harlot (formerly also harlots)1535 whore1547 strumpc1550 strumpet1627 prostitute1631 to be (also to go) on (or upon) the street(s)1754 hustle1930 ho1972 tom1981 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel v. 411 She showed him a snapshot of her steady... I don't hustle when he's in town. 1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday i. 4 If you were hustling a state you should do honour to that state. 1957 C. MacInnes City of Spades ii. ii. 117 ‘You're positive she's not hustling?’ ‘Muriel..is no harlot.’ 1957 C. MacInnes City of Spades ii. ii. 120 Hustling with Jumble queers. 1959 Listener 10 Dec. 1048/1 She..revolted in revenge against her family, ‘hustled’ in Piccadilly, hated men as clients, took a ponce. 1960 Guardian 23 Sept. 26/7 Several clubs have been threatened with proceedings for keeping a brothel it they allow prostitutes to hustle on the premises. 1970 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 Feb. 11/1 To put it bluntly, she was hustling, and liked the rewards in the shape of cash and jewelry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1715v.1684 |
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