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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(grīndĭd) 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(grīndĭd) 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

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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.

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