hustle

intransitive verb

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

to try to earn money, especially by selling drugs

Collocates grind¹¹, scrilla⁴, 24-7⁴, maintain³, hard³, on the grind³, brick³, hard³, fiend², hustler², block², weight², baller², bread², mail², mine², 24-7-365², dog, dinero, don mega, fam, fed, fetti, fin', flip, G, geeked out, go hard, guac, H-town, heron, j's, keep it real, ki, kicks, loco, move, nick, O.G., on the cut, on the low, out chea, pen, powder, project, projects, punk, rap, re-up, rep, rhyme, rims, rubber band, scrill, serve, shot-caller, slab, slang, spit, spot, strapped, stripes, stunt, thugged-out, tote, trap, tryna, ya heard, yola, zip, ball, fifth, shife, peeps, figures, game, on the regular, paper, stack, 9 milli, baby mama, back in the day, bang, bid, candy, chips, chrome, clucker, come up, D

Domains Drug Sales, Money

Etymology pre hip-hop, from the 1840s

Synonyms cake up, grind

Related concepts move, push, slang, sling, trap

Related words hustler, Hustle town

Timeline

1985 Too $hort "Coke Dealers" [Players]
He hustled by himself, thinkin that's okay
1986-10-25 Whodini "The Good Part" [Back In Black]
I've been hustlin, bustlin, and bustin my chops
1987-10-25 Heavy D & The Boyz "Here We Go" [Living Large]
I got my rest, I feel fresh, now it's time to hustle

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hustle

transitive verb

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

to sell (drugs, records, etc.)

Collocates crack¹⁵, thug⁵, weight³, coke³, ki², Caddy², rock², yay², corner², ends, hard, I'mma, kush, nick, powder, rap, rap, raw, serve, slug, snow, soda, stack, thugged-out, tree, white, muh'fucker, trap, pack, dro, lac, brick, buster, chill, crew, dime bag

Domains Drug Sales, Money

Etymology pre hip-hop, from the late 1880s

Synonyms flip, grind, move, pump, push, serve, slang, sling, trap

Related concepts cake up

Timeline

1993-11-10 E-40 "Questions" feat. Droop-E [Federal]
Hustlin these records and tapes
1994-05-10 Ant Banks "Streets of Oakland" feat. Boots [The Big Badass]
Still hustling food stamps for my candy apple red Caddy
1994-06-21 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony "Down For My Thang" [Creepin on ah Come Up]
Them St. Clair thugs hustlin' drugs, gotta make that money, man

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hustle

noun

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

a money-making enterprise;

effort to earn

Collocates crack², 12-gauge, four pound, all about, B.I., bird, block, cake, cheddar, D, down, ends, fetti, figures, front, get over, green leaf, grind, guap, gun-clapper, H-town, hit a lick, Inglewood, loc, mail, nathan, paid, paper, player, plex, plug, po-po, powder, ride, root of evil, trapper

Domains Drug Sales, Money

Etymology pre hip-hop, form the 1960s

Related concepts game

Related words hustler

Timeline

1985-01-21 Run-D.M.C. "You're Blind" [King of Rock]
You try to make a hustle to get ahead
1987-12-08 Kool Moe Dee "No Respect" [How Ya Like Me Now]
Ain't nobody ever had a hustle like mine
1991-01-15 Gang Starr "What You Want This Time?" [Step In The Arena]
The struggle, the hassle, the hustle, the fight

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hustle

transitive verb

Published on April 4, 2020, 5:07 a.m.

to acquire (money)

Collocates dough², cream, peep

Domains Money

Synonyms cake up

Timeline

1982 Kurtis Blow "Tough" [Tough]
Hustlin' a buck to stay alive
1992-09-09 JT The Bigga Figga "The Hard Way" [Don't Stop Till We Major]
Stackin my shit, hustlin cash
2003-11-14 Jay-Z "Dirt Off Your Shoulder" [The Black Album]
Tryin to hustle some things that go with the Porsche

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