Synonyms for hustle
verb
To hurry
act quickly, rush, push; see hasten 1, hurry 1, race 1, run 2, speed.
To work zealously
do a thriving business, be conscientious, make many sales, apply oneself, do a good job, press one's business, give all one's energy to, at it all the time*, keep humming*, get on the ball*; see also work 1.
To cheat
con, swindle, flimflam; see deceive, trick.
See hustle in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To increase the speed of:
accelerate, expedite, hasten, hurry, quicken, speed (up), step up. See fastTo move swiftly:
bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, pelt2, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour2, shoot, speed, sprint, tear1, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. (Informal) hotfoot, rip. (Slang) barrel, highball. (Chiefly British) nip1. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See move
noun
An aggressive readiness along with energy to undertake taxing efforts:
drive, enterprise, initiative, punch. (Informal) get-up-and-go, gumption, push. See action, tired, tryRapidness of movement or activity:
celerity, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, haste, hurry, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, speediness, swiftness. See fast
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