hustle vs cheat

cheat vs hustle

hustle and cheat both are nouns.

hustle and cheat both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hustle	Yes	No	Yes	No
cheat	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, cheat is a hypernym of hustle; that is, cheat is a word with a broader meaning than hustle:

hustle: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
cheat: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

Other hypernyms of hustle include fraud, rig, swindle.

hustle (noun)	cheat (noun)
a rapid active commotion	a deception for profit to yourself
a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property	the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
	someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
	weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
	weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

hustle (verb)	cheat (verb)
pressure or urge someone into an action	defeat someone through trickery or deceit
move or cause to move energetically or busily	deprive somebody of something by deceit
cause to move furtively and hurriedly	engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity	be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
get by trying hard

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