hustle

Definition

To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.

Etymology

From Dutch husselen or by metathesis from Dutch hutselen (“to shake up”), a frequentative of hutsen (“to stir, to move something (back and forth)”).

Example Sentences

• "There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams."
• "I'll have to hustle to get there on time."
• "Men in dairy lunches were hustling to gulp down the food which cooks had hustled to fry"