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: --
I have not been suggesting that every case, or one case in ten, should be hustled into court.
On such an occasion, naturally, riot conditions are declared, prison officers are brought in, and the men are immediately hustled away to the cells.
I do not want to see us hustled into ways incompatible with that.
Do not let us be hustled into a policy of voting large sums of money to research which might thereby become of very inferior quality.
We will not be hustled out of our responsibilities.
Can you be sure that these questions are not hustled, jostled, and crowded out at the present time?
They turned round and hustled this woman off.
I have declined to be hustled by the opposition parties or by the media to go faster or further.
