0 past simple and past participle of hustle
1 to make someone move quickly by pushing or pulling them along:
After giving his speech, Johnson was hustled out of the hall by bodyguards.
2 to try to persuade someone, especially to buy something, often illegally:
Picking up a 'negative suggestion of failure', his listener hustled him out with empty promises to scout for possible situations.
Handwerk, he says, 'was being hustled into the industrial age'.
There can be no accusation that on this matter anybody is being hurried or hustled.
The geologist, too, was hustled from the room.
My unsuspecting constituents were hustled from the room.
A number of people hope, and an equally great number of people fear, that at any moment we may be hustled into peace.
I suggest, however, that we cannot be hustled along quite like that.
I have declined to be hustled by the opposition parties or by the media to go faster or further.
