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hustle
Synonyms and Antonyms of hustle
- enjoyed the hustle and bustle of the holiday season
- with his characteristic hustle, he had all the plans for the conference lined up in a matter of days
- a clever hustle that tricked people into revealing their bank account information
hustle
Synonyms and Antonyms of hustle
- everyone really hustled to get the project finished on schedule
break, ease (up), let up, slacken
bum, chill, dally, dillydally, footle, goldbrick, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), idle, laze, loaf, lounge, shirk, slack (off), veg out
bask, loll, relax, repose, rest, unwind
dabble, doodle, fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang, hang about [British], mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle
- we'd better hustle, or we'll miss the train
barrel, belt, blast, blaze, blow, bolt, bomb [slang], bowl, breeze, bundle, bustle, buzz, cannonball, careen, career, chase, course, crack (on), dash, drive, fly, hare, hasten, hie, highball, hotfoot (it), hump, hurl, hurry, hurtle, jet, jump, motor, nip, pelt, race, ram, rip, rocket, run, rush, rustle, scoot, scurry, scuttle, shoot, speed, step, tear, travel, trot, whirl, whisk, zip, zoom
- a swindler who hustled cashiers by getting them all confused while they were making change
beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose [slang], mulct, nobble [British slang], pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize
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