LekhoriLekhoriTo push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
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.
A state of busy activity.
A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
'It's just natural for the folks here to be indolent,' she said. 'They just haven't got any hustle in them.'
From Dutch husselen or by metathesis from Dutch hutselen (“to shake up”), a frequentative of hutsen (“to stir, to move something (back and forth)”).
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A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).