0323 Flashcards
booze
Bheki was the drinks man, alsways finding us booze and always coming up with an execuse to drink.
on the booze, off the booze
hustler
Selling slowly evolved into hustling because Bongani saw all the angels and knew how to exploit them. Like Tom, Bogani was a hustler.
hus‧tler /ˈhʌslə $ -ər/ noun [countable]
1 especially American English someone who tries to trick people into giving them money
2 American English a prostitute
hus‧tle1 /ˈhʌsəl/ verb (hustled, hustling)
1 [transitive] to make someone move quickly, especially by pushing them roughly
hustle somebody into/out of/through etc something
I was hustled out of the building by a couple of security men.
hustle somebody away
He was hustled away by police officers.
2 [intransitive] American English to do something with a lot of energy and determination
Cindy’s not a great player, but she really hustles.
3 [intransitive] American English to hurry in doing something or going somewhere
We need to hustle if we’re going to make this flight.
4 [intransitive, transitive] American English to sell or obtain things in an illegal or dishonest way
thieves hustling stolen goods on the street
5 [intransitive] American English informal to work as a prostitute, or to be in charge of prostitutes
hustle
• Come on, guys, let’s hustle!
• He stumbled on it, almost fell, then picked up the front of it and hustled after his friends.
• He was in the right place at the right time and hustling as he usually does.
• We hustled back to the car.
• I don’t like answering the phone during dinner just to be hustled by some stranger.
• Martin seized her arm and hustled her away.
• Two policemen quickly appeared and hustled him out.
• The two men were hustled into a police van and driven away.
• If my wife and I hustle, it takes us fifteen minutes just to unload it all from the trailer.
• Plus hustling l aura Smolensky is not cheap.
• Kent were hustled out for 196.
• Police forced the relatives to the ground before hustling them out of Liverpool Crown Court.
• He was hustled up to London to have his head cut off with less mercy than we would treat a chicken.
hustle2 noun [uncountable]
1 busy and noisy activity
the hustle and bustle of the market place
2 American English ways of getting money that involve cheating or deceiving people
3 American English when someone does something quickly, with a lot of effort and eagerness
The team has a lot of talent but no hustle.
hustle and bustle
• Where Sampras plodded, Agassi hustled and bustled through to the second round like a man in a hurry.
• But Tranmere were not all hustle and bustle.
• Life was terribly hectic in the city, she thought, all hustle and bustle.
• We very rarely saw the governor - especially late afternoon or evening - and there was a lot of hustle and bustle.
• She enjoyed all the hustle and bustle of people and music.
• A school-age child has trouble concentrating in the class-room because she is overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle.
• The Pátio is an interesting oasis in which to rest from the hustle and bustle of Funchal.
• I was tired of the hustle and bustle of New York.
• The hustle and bustle of modern life occurs in the shadow of history.
Origin hustle1 (1600-1700) Dutch husselen “to shake”
barter
Cash gave us leverage in the hood’s barter economy as well.
Ryan barter his pen with Vivian for her jelly fish.
barter with sb for sth
crackhead
The happiness crackheads enjoyed won’t last long.
someone who uses the illegal drug crack
crate
I saw a man was moving a crate of beers.
a large box made of wood or plastic that is used for carrying fruit, bottles etc
aid and abet
I’m aiding and abetting a criminal by buying those corn flakes.
aid and abet
law to help someone do something illegal
Examples from the Corpus
aid and abet
• It has been aided and abetted.
• But Selikoff persisted in his campaign against asbestos, aided and abetted by labor unions and environmental groups.
• What if these citizens were quietly protected, even aided and abetted, by our elected officials?
• Where were those dark Plutonian forces when she needed them to aid and abet her plotting?
• Activist tendencies aid and abet stage 1, having experiences.
• Second, the doctor has aided and abetted the patient only in his refusal to undergo further treatment.
• It isn’t eased by the knowledge that the bankers who aided and abetted these exercises have suffered as much as anybody.
pawnshop
It turns out that we were selling CDs and DJing parties in order to capitalize a paydaylending and pawnshop operation in the hood.
write off
Finally we wrote off the project after 6 months’ hard work.
1 to write a letter to a company or organization asking them to send you goods or information SYN send off, write away for
2 write somebody/something ↔ off to decide that someone or something is useless, unimportant, or a failure SYN dismiss
write somebody/something ↔ off as
3 write something ↔ off to officially say that a debt no longer has to be paid, or officially accept that you cannot get back money you have spent or lost
boost (informal)
It was all crap he was boosting from people’s luggage.
4 American English informal to steal something
taper off
Slowly the rush would start to taper off and we’s wind down.
After sunset, the rain began to taper off.
to decrease gradually
