Used in a Sentence

hustling

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hustling.

Editorial note

The economy is rough for everyone outside Silicon Valley right now and they love the fact that with some hustling they can make a good side income.

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Quick take

Act of one who hustles.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hustling gathered in one view.

noun

Act of one who hustles.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hustling.

noun

Act of one who hustles.

Example sentences

1

The economy is rough for everyone outside Silicon Valley right now and they love the fact that with some hustling they can make a good side income.

2

Your mind does not thrive on pure coding and hustling alone, it needs its own free-form exercise too.

3

It's going to be fun hustling shared-host resellers and the RentACoder crowd for $5 here and $8 there.

4

Even when hustling very hard, he still went out to the bars with friends, still relaxed, etc.

5

Consulting also suits a certain type of person because it's a hustling game.

6

If this is a economic winner, I would have already expected it to be done informally already by hustling undergrads...

7

You gotta keep hustling and doing what you think is right but not get hung up about any particular connection or rung of the ladder.

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Is she just hustling for clients who have no idea what they're doing re: web design and using marginal technical knowledge to make pages for them?

9

For my part I specialised in thieving, hustling and buying and selling 'rares'.

10

I guess tech people are fired for lack of talent in hustling company politics much often than they are for chosing a technology.

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And it seems you're still working and hustling.

12

Fuck conceptualization of ‘hustling’ as working hard.

Quote examples

1

First, there are two types of founders: Made Founders and Hustling (it's a nicer word than "Marginal") Founders.

2

When people in this industry talk about "hustling", they're not talking about the kind you find in a seedy pool hall.

3

I'm hustling to get my new app out and I plan to use a kind of "hybrid" system.

4

However, the real world often doesn't work that way - there is some pressing "business deadline" that you simply cannot avoid hustling to meet.

Proper noun examples

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Hustling Founders are the ones who don't have investor-level people pulling strings all the time and who really, really, really fucking have to pound the pavement-- and hope that a Made Founder doesn't decide to compete in their space, because then they're up against someone who's going to have 50 times the capital.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hustling in a sentence?

The economy is rough for everyone outside Silicon Valley right now and they love the fact that with some hustling they can make a good side income.

What does hustling mean?

Act of one who hustles.

What part of speech is hustling?

hustling is commonly used as noun.