hustle

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Verb

Plain form (yanzu) hustle

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) hustles

Past tense (ya wuce) hustled

Past participle (ya wuce) hustled

Present participle (ana cikin yi) hustling

1. (intransitive) To rush or hurry. <> yin sauri, gudu.

   I'll have to hustle to get there on time. <> Dole na yi sauri idan zan kai wajen a lokaci.

2. (transitive) To con or deceive; especially financially. <> yaudara musamman ta hanyar kuɗi.

   The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.

3. (transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
4. To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
5. To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
6. To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
7. To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
8. (informal) To work. <> yin aiki.
9. (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work. <> yi faɗi tashe, saka ƙoƙari a aikinka. yin ƙoƙarin samun kuɗi.
10. To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle. <> tura wani da ƙarfi.