• Finnish: hoputtaa, kiirehtiä

• Finnish: huijata, petkuttaa

Noun

1. A rush or hurry.
2. A type of dance.

Translations

Hustle may mean:

Slang

• Hustle, to use a gambling technique in which a player hides his/her true skill while betting on billiards games in order to trick the opponent into significantly raising the stakes, and only then playing at full capability (or in a broader usage, engaging in a similar strategy when betting on other activities)
• Street hustle: To act as a male prostitute and/or pimp, or (in a broader usage) a grifter, or (in an even broader usage common in hip hop culture) someone who gets by in life any way that they can

See also Lumpenproletariat.

Entertainment

• Hustle (dance), a disco dance, popularized by the song, below
• "The Hustle", a disco song by Van McCoy which was inspired by and helped popularize the dance, above
• Hustle (1975 film), a neo-noir movie starring Burt Reynolds as a private investigator
• Hustle (2004 film), an ESPN made-for-TV movie about Pete Rose
• Hustle (TV series), a drama series launched in 2004, shown on BBC One in the UK and AMC in the US
• The Hustle, an album by G. Love & Special Sauce
• Hustle (video game), a 1977 arcade game
• HUSTLE, a professional wrestling promotion company in Japan

Sports

• In basketball, to hustle means to run down the court quickly to get a pass or a free ball (from the original meaning of the word, "to go quickly").

See also the sports and gaming gambling technique above under "Slang".

See also

• Hustler (disambiguation)

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