hustle
To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
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I have never got up at 430am so consistently as I have since I started working for myself and doing narration work. This was supposed to be my "side hustle" and yet...
I just made $5,300 from one digital product sale 🥰💕. Your first 10K is hustle. Your first 50K is strategy 💞 ♟️
"It's like Pam Bondi got Harmeet Dhillon on TaskRabbit to represent her in the oversight hearings." Melissa Murray and Tim Miller on the DOJ official treating her government job like a side hustle.
NGL I respect the hustle. LOL nypost.com/2026/05/06/u...
This week in The Indie Hustle, Tara Conlan speaks to board advisor and consultant Steve Ackerman, about the new opportunities emerging for producers and creators. Link in comments below
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To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
I'll have to hustle to get there on time.
“I have never got up at 430am so consistently as I have since I started working for myself and doing narration work. This was supposed to be my "side hustle" and yet...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I just made $5,300 from one digital product sale 🥰💕. Your first 10K is hustle. Your first 50K is strategy 💞 ♟️”
— Bluesky· May 2026“"It's like Pam Bondi got Harmeet Dhillon on TaskRabbit to represent her in the oversight hearings." Melissa Murray and Tim Miller on the DOJ official treating her government job like a side hustle.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“NGL I respect the hustle. LOL nypost.com/2026/05/06/u...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“This week in The Indie Hustle, Tara Conlan speaks to board advisor and consultant Steve Ackerman, about the new opportunities emerging for producers and creators. Link in comments below”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(intransitive) To rush or hurry.
Men in dairy lunches were hustling to gulp down the food which cooks had hustled to fry
“TRIVIA TUESDAY ⚡🪄 Salt-N-Pepa weren't just "Push It." Did you know they were originally called Super Nature? They were working at Sears when they cut their first track. Real hustle right there. 🎧💪 #SaltNPepa #HipHopHistory #Trivia”
— Bluesky· May 2026“A raise is taxed at your marginal rate — so side hustle income is tax-advantaged, not just a cash grab.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Want to make money while you sleep? "Side Hustle to Passive Income" shows you how to turn spare time into steady cash flow—for just $9.97. https://buy.stripe.com/4gMeVfc24dcq4nPbsQ9AA01”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Next stop…. #NYC !! Hoping to do a little side hustle work while I’m in New York… 😈”
— Bluesky· May 2026“HERE’S WHAT THEY NEED TO DO: Affordable housing; Yes. But listen, build it all on the outskirts of LA. So people perpetually want to flock to outside the hustle and bustling stress that’s going on. Then, as that populates factor economics of increases per diem you feel me.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
“>> that's hilarious. Nipy hustle.”
“>> No, because I love Dempsey Hustle.”
“>> No, because I love Dempsey Hustle.”
“>> that's hilarious. Nipy hustle.”
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