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Maybe it's An American Thing, but as I grew up and participated in school sports, our coaches often told us to "hustle" -- I don't think they intended for us to

• tyingq 9y ago
  The full phrase is "always be hustlin". That does have a certain context. Not necessarily fraud, but certainly cutting corners, winning at any cost, etc. See Glengarry Glen Ross for something very similar.
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• leggomylibro 9y ago
  It's just A Word Meaning Different Things Thing; hustle can mean 'hurry' or something similar to 'sprint,' but it can also mean a side gig that gets you a bit of extra income. The typical connotation is with under-the-table stuff and contraband-y stuff in prisons, though, so you might not expect to hear someone talk about their 'new hustle delivering newspapers.'
  • madcaptenor 9y ago
    Uber is currently running ads on Pandora advertising driving for Uber as "the ultimate side hustle".
• ashark 9y ago
  So did I, but outside the context of sports it still mostly means scamming people and/or generally earning money illegally to me. Or maybe a dance. I don't think I ever saw/heard it used in its startup culture sense until I was in my late 20s or so, probably on this very site (and no, I didn't grow up in a place where "hustling" in the sense of scamming/dealing was common) so the scamming/defrauding/dealing/etc. meaning is what sticks with me. Definitely colors my perception when I see it used for other things.