Read full poem →"This tongue that talks, these lungs that shout,
These thews that hustle us about,
This brain that fills the skull with schemes,
Dictionary Entry
A state of busy activity.
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Common Phrases
. hustlehustle better
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Poetry examples for “hustle”
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Read full poem →I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.
Charles Bukowski
Read full poem →Just then the colored waiter brought in the dinner.
"Get a hustle on you, you miserable sinner,"
Said dear old Dick to the colored waiter.
Read full poem →And silent shows what want of words conceals;
Then ere the parting moments hustle nigh,
And night in deeper dye his curtain dips,