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hustings
  • n  the activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making)
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hustle
  • n  a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
  • n  a rapid active commotion
  • v  cause to move furtively and hurriedly
    The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater
  • v  move or cause to move energetically or busily
  • v  sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
  • v  get by trying hard
    she hustled a free lunch from the waiter
  • v  pressure or urge someone into an action
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hustler
  • n  a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
  • n  a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties
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huston
  • n  United States film maker born in the United States but an Irish citizen after 1964 (1906-1987)
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hut
  • n  temporary military shelter
  • n  small crude shelter used as a dwelling
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hutch
  • n  a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
  • n  small crude shelter used as a dwelling
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hutchins
  • n  United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977)
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hutchinson
  • n  American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views (1591-1643)
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hutton
  • n  English cricketer (1916-1990)
  • n  Scottish geologist who described the processes that have shaped the surface of the earth (1726-1797)
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hutu
  • n  a member of a Bantu people living in Rwanda and Burundi
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huxley
  • n  English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
  • n  English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)
  • n  English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)
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huygens
  • n  Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695)
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