Hustle vs. Bustle

Hustleverb

(intransitive) To rush or hurry.

Hustleverb

(transitive) To con or deceive; especially financially.

Hustleverb

(transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.

Hustleverb

To dance the hustle, a disco dance.

Hustleverb

To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.

Hustleverb

To sell sex; to work as a pimp.

Hustleverb

To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.

Hustleverb

(informal) To work.

Hustleverb

(informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.

Hustleverb

To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.

Hustlenoun

A state of busy activity.

Hustlenoun

A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.

Hustlenoun

A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle.

Hustlenoun

(prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.

Hustleverb

To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.

Hustleverb

To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.

Hustlenoun

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

Hustlenoun

a rapid bustling commotion

Hustleverb

cause to move furtively and hurriedly;

Hustleverb

move or cause to move energetically or busily;

Hustleverb

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

Hustleverb

push roughly; jostle

Hustleverb

force (someone) to move hurriedly or unceremoniously

Hustleverb

push one's way; bustle

Hustleverb

obtain illicitly or by forceful action

Hustleverb

pressure someone into doing something

Hustleverb

sell aggressively

Hustleverb

engage in prostitution

Hustlenoun

a state of great activity

Hustlenoun

a fraud or swindle

Bustlenoun

An excited activity; a stir.

Bustlenoun

(computing) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.

Bustlenoun

(historical) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.

Bustleverb

To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).

Bustleverb

To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).

Bustleverb

To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.

Bustlenoun

Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.

Bustlenoun

A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; - called also bishop, and tournure.

Bustlenoun

a rapid bustling commotion

Bustlenoun

a framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt

Bustleverb

move or cause to move energetically or busily;

Bustleverb

move in an energetic and busy manner

Bustleverb

cause to move hurriedly in a particular direction

Bustleverb

(of a place) be full of activity

Bustlenoun

excited activity and movement

Bustlenoun

a pad or frame worn under a skirt and puffing it out behind.

Bustle

A bustle is a padded undergarment used to add fullness, or support the drapery, at the back of women's dresses in the mid-to-late 19th century. Bustles were worn under the skirt in the back, just below the waist, to keep the skirt from dragging.