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hustle
Synonyms and Antonyms of hustle
- the hustle and bustle of the holiday season
- With his characteristic hustle, he had everything lined up in two 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 magazine out on schedule.
sweat blood
break, ease (up), let up, slacken
bum, chill, dally, dillydally, 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, goof (around), hang, 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, bowl, breeze, bundle, bustle, buzz, cannonball, careen, career, chase, course, 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
beat it, get a move on, make tracks, shake a leg, step on it
- A customer hustled the cashier by getting him all confused while he was making change.
sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners
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