Hustle vs. Grind
Though each individual has their own journey, the known formula for success seems universal – work hard, stay committed, perfect your craft, and take advantage of opportunities. Yet, there is an even more common mantra that sets a solid line of differentiation between two types of people – work smarter, not harder. That invaluable phrase is the foundation for understanding the difference between grind and hustle. To achieve lasting success, and continue conquering multiple missions, it’s important to know which category you currently fit into.
Key Differences
Grinders desperately seek opportunity. If a slot opens, they step in without hesitation for the purposing of proving their worth to others. Hustlers put effort into existing opportunities to build on their vision and create additional opportunities with the value they already know they have.
As verbs the difference between hustle and grind is that hustle is to rush or hurry while grind is to reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion or grind can be brawl, fight, wrangle over.
Janet White
Dec 10, 2015
As nouns the difference between hustle and grind is that hustle is a state of busy activity while grind is the act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
Samantha Walker
Dec 10, 2015
Hustlers make the right moves and master positioning, while someone who is a grinder always searches for moves, seeking to master where they’ve forcefully been positioned.
Hustle is about going fast and quick, whereas grind takes you step by step towards your goal.
Aimie Carlson
Dec 10, 2015
Someone who is a grinder can work tirelessly and see no return. Their sense of fulfillment is found in the chaos of moving at a fast pace, juggling multiple tasks, or simply being busy. However, someone who is a hustler makes sure every effort reaps a valuable return on investment.
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One needs to be more of a hustler for success as compare to a grinder.
Janet White
Dec 10, 2015
Being a hustler is more crucial as compared to a grinder for the survival in 20’s.
Hustle and Grind Definitions
Hustle
To move or act energetically and rapidly
We hustled to get dinner ready on time.
Grind
To reduce to small bits or crush to a fine powder
Grind wheat into flour.
Grind coffee beans.
Hustle
To push or force one's way.
Grind
To shape, sharpen, or refine with friction
Grind scissors to a fine edge.
Grind lenses for eyeglasses.
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Hustle
To act aggressively, especially in business dealings.
Grind
To rub (two surfaces) together harshly; gnash
Grind one's teeth.
Hustle
To obtain something by deceitful or illicit means; practice theft or swindling.
Grind
To bear down on harshly; crush
The team's spirit was ground down by harsh losses.
Hustle
To solicit customers. Used of a pimp or prostitute.
Grind
To oppress or weaken gradually or persistently
“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law” (Oliver Goldsmith).
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Hustle
To misrepresent one's ability in order to deceive someone, especially in gambling.
Grind
To operate by turning a crank
Ground a hurdy-gurdy.
Hustle
To push or convey in a hurried or rough manner
Hustled the prisoner into a van.
Grind
To instill or teach by persistent repetition
Ground the truth into their heads.
Hustle
To cause or urge to proceed quickly; hurry
Hustled the board into a quick decision.
Grind
To perform the operation of grinding something.
Hustle
To sell or get by questionable or aggressive means
Hustled stolen watches.
Hustling spare change.
Grind
To become crushed, pulverized, or powdered by friction
Those coffee beans ground easily.
Hustle
To pressure into buying or doing something
A barfly hustling the other customers for drinks.
Grind
To move with noisy friction; grate
A train grinding along rusty rails.
Hustle
To misrepresent one's skill in (a game or activity) in order to deceive someone, especially in gambling
Hustle pool.
Grind
Past tense and past participle grind·ed(grīndĭd) To ride a skateboard, a snowboard, or skis over a grind rail or narrow surface, often with the board or skis at right angles to the direction of movement.
Hustle
The act or an instance of jostling or shoving.
Grind
(Informal) To devote oneself to study or work
Grinding for a test.
Grinding away at housework.
Hustle
Energetic activity; drive.
Grind
Past tense and past participle grind·ed(grīndĭd) Slang To rotate the pelvis erotically, as while dancing or performing a striptease.
Hustle
(Slang) An illicit or unethical way of doing business or obtaining money; a fraud or deceit
"the most dangerous and wide-open drug hustle of them all" (Newsweek).
Grind
The act of grinding.
Hustle
To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
Grind
A crunching or grinding noise.
Hustle
(intransitive) To rush or hurry.
I'll have to hustle to get there on time.
Grind
A specific grade or degree of pulverization, as of coffee beans
Drip grind.
Hustle
(transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
Grind
Bits of ground coffee; grounds.
Hustle
(transitive) To con, swindle, or deceive; especially financially.
The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.
Grind
(Informal) A laborious task, routine, or study
The daily grind.
Hustle
To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
Grind
(Informal) A student who works or studies excessively.
Hustle
(informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
Grind
(Slang) An erotic rotation of the pelvis.
Hustle
(informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
Grind
(transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
Hustle
(informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
Grind
(transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
Grind a lens; grind an axe
Hustle
To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
Grind
(metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
Hustle
(informal) To work.
Grind
(intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
This corn grinds well.
Steel grinds to a sharp edge.
Hustle
(informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
Grind
To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
Hustle
A state of busy activity.
Grind
To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
Hustle
A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
Grind
(transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
Hustle
(preceded by definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle.
Grind
To rotate the hips erotically.
Hustle
(prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
Grind
(slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
Hustle
(slang) An act of prostitution.
Grind
(video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
These enemies give lots of loot when killed, so many players fight them to grind for resources.
The first level of the game is the best place to grind extra lives.
Hustle
To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
Grind
(transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
To grind an organ
Hustle
To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.
Leaving the king, who had hustled along the floor with his dress worfully arrayed.
Grind
To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
Hustle
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
Grind
To automatically format and indent code.
Hustle
A rapid bustling commotion
Grind
To instill through repetitive teaching.
Grinding lessons into students' heads does not motivate them to learn.
Hustle
Cause to move furtively and hurriedly;
The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater
Grind
To eat.
Eh, brah, let's go grind.
Hustle
Move or cause to move energetically or busily;
The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance
Grind
To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
Hustle
Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
Grind
To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
Grind
The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
Grind
Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
Grind
A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
This bag contains espresso grind.
Grind
A tedious and laborious task.
This homework is a grind.
Grind
A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
Grind
One who studies hard.
Grind
Clipping of grindcore
Grind
(slang) Hustle; hard work. en
I pledge allegiance to the grind. I'm up early as hell tryna get mine.
Grind
A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
Grind
To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
Take the millstones, and grind meal.
Grind
To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.
Grind
To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
To grind the subject or defraud the prince.
Grind
To study hard for examination; - commonly used with away; as, to grind away at one's studies.
Grind
To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.
Send theeInto the common prison, there to grind.
Grind
To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.
Grind
To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
Grind
To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
Grind
To perform hard and distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.
Grind
The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
Grind
Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study.
Grind
A student that studies hard; a dig; a wonk.
Grind
An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively
Grind
Hard monotonous routine work
Grind
The act of grinding to a powder or dust
Grind
Press or grind with a crunching noise
Grind
Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together;
Grate one's teeth in anger
Grind
Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;
Grind the spices in a mortar
Mash the garlic
Grind
Work hard;
She was digging away at her math homework
Lexicographers drudge all day long
Grind
Dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
What is Hustle?
Hustle is a state of great activity. Hustle is about going fast and quick. As noun hustle is a state of busy activity. As verb hustle is to rush or hurry. Hustlers make the right moves and master positioning. Hustler makes sure every effort reaps a valuable return on investment.
What is Grind?
Reduce (something) to small particles or powder by crushing it. As noun grind is the act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. As verb grind is to reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion or grind can be brawl, fight, wrangle over. Grinder searches for moves, seeking to master where they’ve forcefully been positioned.
