Hustle

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Hustle

A slang term meaning to cheat or otherwise earn money unethically or illegally.

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We hustled it on to the raft in a pile, and I told Jim to float along down, and show a light when he judged he had gone about two mile, and keep it burning till I come; then I manned my oars and shoved for the light.

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Phileas Fogg and Fix were roughly hustled in their attempts to protect their fair companion; the former, as cool as ever, tried to defend himself with the weapons which nature has placed at the end of every Englishman's arm, but in vain.

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They let him come out, poor father, without a friend to speak to him and they hustled him out of the country.