Hustle may mean: - 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.
- Good Hustle: To efficiently and promptly answer a question. Often followed by an elevated hand slap.
[edit] 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 Real Hustle, a BBC television series in which 3 people demonstrate scams on members of the public
- The Hustle, an album by G. Love & Special Sauce
- HUSTLE, a professional wrestling promotion company in Japan
- Hustle A Snake-like video game available on the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
- The Hustle (2008 film)
- USS Hustle (YFB-6), a United States Navy ferry launch in commission from 1902 to 1921, which was known as USS Steam Cutter No. 423 from 1902 to 1908 and as USS Despatch from 1908 to 1918 before being named Hustle; see USS Despatch (1902)
[edit] 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".
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