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In the X-files, FBI agent Mulder approaches a group of downtrodden people living on the street. He loudly asks if anybody knows a recently murdered person. People ignore him, except one man. The man says he knows who the victim was and wants to show Mulder some helpful information that may help him figure out what happened. The man asks for money, and when given money by the agent, shows him a sketch of a strange creature. Mulder feels he's being fooled, and says:
Are you hustling me?
I've looked up hustle and the main meaning is similar to push. Dictionaries give swindle as a synonym, which seems to fit the context here. I'm trying to fully grasp the question so I can use it in other situations. My interpretation of hustle here is:
Are you trying to quickly get rid of me (push me away) by giving me short or false information?
If this interpretation is correct, then can I ask the same question to, say, my teacher who gives me a very short, incomplete answer to make me go away because he is busy?
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In the X-files, FBI agent Mulder approaches a group of downtrodden people living on the street. He loudly asks if anybody knows a recently murdered person. People ignore him, except one man. The man says he knows who the victim was and wants to show Mulder some helpful information that may help him figure out what happened. The man asks for money, and when given money by the agent, shows him a sketch of a strange creature. Mulder feels he's being fooled, and says:
Are you hustling me?
I've looked up hustle and the main meaning is similar to push. Dictionaries give swindle as a synonym, which seems to fit the context here. I'm trying to fully grasp the question so I can use it in other situations. My interpretation of hustle here is:
Are you trying to quickly get rid of me (push me away) by giving me short or false information?
If this interpretation is correct, then can I ask the same question to, say, my teacher who gives me a very short, incomplete answer to make me go away because he is busy?
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As a side note, hustle is a slang term like "con" meaning to "cheat, swindle in a small way" so that using it would cast your subject, whatever it happens to be, in the light of petty crime.
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In the X-files, FBI agent Mulder approaches a group of downtrodden people living on the street. He loudly asks if anybody knows a recently murdered person. People ignore him, except one man. The man says he knows who the victim was and wants to show Mulder some helpful information that may help him figure out what happened. The man asks for money, and when given money by the agent, shows him a sketch of a strange creature. Mulder feels he's being fooled, and says:
Are you hustling me?
I've looked up hustle and the main meaning is similar to push. Dictionaries give swindle as a synonym, which seems to fit the context here. I'm trying to fully grasp the question so I can use it in other situations. My interpretation of hustle here is:
Are you trying to quickly get rid of me (push me away) by giving me short or false information?
If this interpretation is correct, then can I ask the same question to, say, my teacher who gives me a very short, incomplete answer to make me go away because he is busy?
word-meaning phrase-meaning
asked 6 hours ago
Sara
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In the X-files, FBI agent Mulder approaches a group of downtrodden people living on the street. He loudly asks if anybody knows a recently murdered person. People ignore him, except one man. The man says he knows who the victim was and wants to show Mulder some helpful information that may help him figure out what happened. The man asks for money, and when given money by the agent, shows him a sketch of a strange creature. Mulder feels he's being fooled, and says:
Are you hustling me?
I've looked up hustle and the main meaning is similar to push. Dictionaries give swindle as a synonym, which seems to fit the context here. I'm trying to fully grasp the question so I can use it in other situations. My interpretation of hustle here is:
Are you trying to quickly get rid of me (push me away) by giving me short or false information?
If this interpretation is correct, then can I ask the same question to, say, my teacher who gives me a very short, incomplete answer to make me go away because he is busy?
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As a side note, hustle is a slang term like "con" meaning to "cheat, swindle in a small way" so that using it would cast your subject, whatever it happens to be, in the light of petty crime.
– TᴚoɯÉÂuo
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As a side note, hustle is a slang term like "con" meaning to "cheat, swindle in a small way" so that using it would cast your subject, whatever it happens to be, in the light of petty crime.
– TᴚoɯÉÂuo
6 mins ago
As a side note, hustle is a slang term like "con" meaning to "cheat, swindle in a small way" so that using it would cast your subject, whatever it happens to be, in the light of petty crime.
– TᴚoɯÉÂuo
6 mins ago
As a side note, hustle is a slang term like "con" meaning to "cheat, swindle in a small way" so that using it would cast your subject, whatever it happens to be, in the light of petty crime.
– TᴚoɯÉÂuo
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hustle (v) : 2b. to sell something to or obtain something from (someone) by energetic and especially underhanded activity : SWINDLE
Your definition is close to correct, but the verb "hustle" always includes the suggestion of cheating someone in some way. For example, if I sell you a watch that I swear is a genuine Rolex, but which I know is actually a forgery, that's a kind of hustle. Or, if I pretend to fall down after being hit by your car, and try to get you to pay me money for my "injuries", that's another kind of hustle.
Every city has its population of hustlers, and there are endless ways someone (or some group) can hustle unsuspecting victims. These kind of schemes are not restricted to any particular country or culture. The plot of many movies involve some kind of hustle (The Sting, Matchstick Men, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Producers, The Brothers Bloom, etc.) although in many of these it's not clear who is hustling whom.
However I would not use it on your teacher unless you really want to imply (playfully or otherwise) that he is trying to cheat you. Instead you want to use "brush me off".
Hey, that's not a complete answer and you know it. Are you just trying to brush me off?
Some dialects might also say "give me the brush". "Blow me off" is also common, but somewhat less polite.
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Hustling (and swindling) involves more than fooling someone or lying to them. Hustling is lying to someone in order to get them to give you money.
In your example from the X-Files, the man convinced Mulder to give him money by promising to give Mulder useful information about the victim. The money is why Mulder wondering if the man was hustling him.
So, unless your teacher is trying to get money from you, even a short answer that is designed to get rid of you is not hustling you.
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2 Answers
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active
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active
oldest
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active
oldest
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up vote
3
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hustle (v) : 2b. to sell something to or obtain something from (someone) by energetic and especially underhanded activity : SWINDLE
Your definition is close to correct, but the verb "hustle" always includes the suggestion of cheating someone in some way. For example, if I sell you a watch that I swear is a genuine Rolex, but which I know is actually a forgery, that's a kind of hustle. Or, if I pretend to fall down after being hit by your car, and try to get you to pay me money for my "injuries", that's another kind of hustle.
Every city has its population of hustlers, and there are endless ways someone (or some group) can hustle unsuspecting victims. These kind of schemes are not restricted to any particular country or culture. The plot of many movies involve some kind of hustle (The Sting, Matchstick Men, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Producers, The Brothers Bloom, etc.) although in many of these it's not clear who is hustling whom.
However I would not use it on your teacher unless you really want to imply (playfully or otherwise) that he is trying to cheat you. Instead you want to use "brush me off".
Hey, that's not a complete answer and you know it. Are you just trying to brush me off?
Some dialects might also say "give me the brush". "Blow me off" is also common, but somewhat less polite.
answered 6 hours ago
Andrew
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3
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hustle (v) : 2b. to sell something to or obtain something from (someone) by energetic and especially underhanded activity : SWINDLE
Your definition is close to correct, but the verb "hustle" always includes the suggestion of cheating someone in some way. For example, if I sell you a watch that I swear is a genuine Rolex, but which I know is actually a forgery, that's a kind of hustle. Or, if I pretend to fall down after being hit by your car, and try to get you to pay me money for my "injuries", that's another kind of hustle.
Every city has its population of hustlers, and there are endless ways someone (or some group) can hustle unsuspecting victims. These kind of schemes are not restricted to any particular country or culture. The plot of many movies involve some kind of hustle (The Sting, Matchstick Men, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Producers, The Brothers Bloom, etc.) although in many of these it's not clear who is hustling whom.
However I would not use it on your teacher unless you really want to imply (playfully or otherwise) that he is trying to cheat you. Instead you want to use "brush me off".
Hey, that's not a complete answer and you know it. Are you just trying to brush me off?
Some dialects might also say "give me the brush". "Blow me off" is also common, but somewhat less polite.
answered 6 hours ago
Andrew
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up vote
3
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up vote
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hustle (v) : 2b. to sell something to or obtain something from (someone) by energetic and especially underhanded activity : SWINDLE
Your definition is close to correct, but the verb "hustle" always includes the suggestion of cheating someone in some way. For example, if I sell you a watch that I swear is a genuine Rolex, but which I know is actually a forgery, that's a kind of hustle. Or, if I pretend to fall down after being hit by your car, and try to get you to pay me money for my "injuries", that's another kind of hustle.
Every city has its population of hustlers, and there are endless ways someone (or some group) can hustle unsuspecting victims. These kind of schemes are not restricted to any particular country or culture. The plot of many movies involve some kind of hustle (The Sting, Matchstick Men, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Producers, The Brothers Bloom, etc.) although in many of these it's not clear who is hustling whom.
However I would not use it on your teacher unless you really want to imply (playfully or otherwise) that he is trying to cheat you. Instead you want to use "brush me off".
Hey, that's not a complete answer and you know it. Are you just trying to brush me off?
Some dialects might also say "give me the brush". "Blow me off" is also common, but somewhat less polite.
answered 6 hours ago
Andrew
60.4k568135
hustle (v) : 2b. to sell something to or obtain something from (someone) by energetic and especially underhanded activity : SWINDLE
Your definition is close to correct, but the verb "hustle" always includes the suggestion of cheating someone in some way. For example, if I sell you a watch that I swear is a genuine Rolex, but which I know is actually a forgery, that's a kind of hustle. Or, if I pretend to fall down after being hit by your car, and try to get you to pay me money for my "injuries", that's another kind of hustle.
Every city has its population of hustlers, and there are endless ways someone (or some group) can hustle unsuspecting victims. These kind of schemes are not restricted to any particular country or culture. The plot of many movies involve some kind of hustle (The Sting, Matchstick Men, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Producers, The Brothers Bloom, etc.) although in many of these it's not clear who is hustling whom.
However I would not use it on your teacher unless you really want to imply (playfully or otherwise) that he is trying to cheat you. Instead you want to use "brush me off".
Hey, that's not a complete answer and you know it. Are you just trying to brush me off?
Some dialects might also say "give me the brush". "Blow me off" is also common, but somewhat less polite.
answered 6 hours ago
Andrew
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answered 6 hours ago
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Hustling (and swindling) involves more than fooling someone or lying to them. Hustling is lying to someone in order to get them to give you money.
In your example from the X-Files, the man convinced Mulder to give him money by promising to give Mulder useful information about the victim. The money is why Mulder wondering if the man was hustling him.
So, unless your teacher is trying to get money from you, even a short answer that is designed to get rid of you is not hustling you.
answered 6 hours ago
fjack
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up vote
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Hustling (and swindling) involves more than fooling someone or lying to them. Hustling is lying to someone in order to get them to give you money.
In your example from the X-Files, the man convinced Mulder to give him money by promising to give Mulder useful information about the victim. The money is why Mulder wondering if the man was hustling him.
So, unless your teacher is trying to get money from you, even a short answer that is designed to get rid of you is not hustling you.
answered 6 hours ago
fjack
625211
add a comment |Â
up vote
2
down vote
up vote
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Hustling (and swindling) involves more than fooling someone or lying to them. Hustling is lying to someone in order to get them to give you money.
In your example from the X-Files, the man convinced Mulder to give him money by promising to give Mulder useful information about the victim. The money is why Mulder wondering if the man was hustling him.
So, unless your teacher is trying to get money from you, even a short answer that is designed to get rid of you is not hustling you.
answered 6 hours ago
fjack
625211
Hustling (and swindling) involves more than fooling someone or lying to them. Hustling is lying to someone in order to get them to give you money.
In your example from the X-Files, the man convinced Mulder to give him money by promising to give Mulder useful information about the victim. The money is why Mulder wondering if the man was hustling him.
So, unless your teacher is trying to get money from you, even a short answer that is designed to get rid of you is not hustling you.
answered 6 hours ago
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As a side note, hustle is a slang term like "con" meaning to "cheat, swindle in a small way" so that using it would cast your subject, whatever it happens to be, in the light of petty crime.
– TᴚoɯÉÂuo
6 mins ago