4. pressure, compel, impel, force, coerce, give [s.o.] a hard sell, Inf. put the squeeze on; harass, hound, badger, pester, nag.
-n. 5. activity, action, doings, busyness, stir, motion, movement; dispatch, expeditiousness, briskness, robustness, alacrity, celerity, fleetness, rapidity, swiftness, speediness, quickness; rushing, hurrying, scurry, hurry-scurry, haste; fuss, flurry, flutter, pother, ado, Inf. to-do, Sometimes Facetious, do; splutter, agitation, restlessness, commotion, tumult, hurly-burly, hubbub.
6. shoving, buffeting, pushing, pressing forward; jolting, jouncing, jarring, jostling, justling, jogging, joggling; bumping, shouldering, elbowing, poking, nudging.
hustler, n. 1. Informal, go-getter, dynamo, demon, pusher, hard worker, man of action, doer, powerhouse, Inf. eager-beaver, Inf. live wire, Inf. busy bee, Inf fire-ball, Inf. ball of fire, Inf crackerjack, Inf. human dynamo; workaholic, workhorse.
2. Slang, swindler, cheat, defrauder, flimflam man, Inf. bilker, SI. chiseler; sharp, sharper, shark, confidence man, Inf. con man or artist, Inf. bunco artist.
3. Slang, prostitute, streetwalker, call girl, SI. hooker.
4. speeder, flier, racer, runner; All Inf. hummer, scorcher, hell-driver, speed demon, speed merchant.
hut, n. 1. shed, shack, shanty, hutch, Brit, bothy; cottage, cot, bungalow, bower, cabin, log cabin, blockhouse, Brit. Dial, cote, Scot. but-and-ben; hole, hovel, dump, sty, pigsty, pigpen, tumbledown shack, wretched hut, mean dwelling.
-v. 2. quarter, provide quarters for, bed, bunk, berth; house, shelter, give shelter to, lodge, provide lodging or lodgings or lodgment for, put up, have as a guest or lodger, roof, provide with a roof.
3. lodge oneself, take refuge, seek protection, take cover.
hutch, n. 1. pen, animal pen, coop, enclosed coop, fold, confine, cage; compound, farmyard, barnyard, stockade, corral, paddock, pound, dog pound, kennel; sty, pigsty, pigpen, chicken yard, chicken coop, sheep fold.
2. hut, cabin, cottage, cot, hogan, wigwam, wickiup, teepee, igloo, adobe, sod house, bunkhouse; lean-to, shed, booth, stall, shack, shanty.
3. box, caddie, casket, cellaret; chest, cupboard, cabinet; crate, storage bin, depository, coffer, crypt, vault, locker, safe.
huzzah, interj. hurrah, hurray, rah. See hurrah (defs. 1, 2).
hyaline, adj. glassy, glasslike, made of glass; clear, clear-as-glass, crystalline, crystal-clear, hyalescent; transparent, translucent, lucid, vitrious, vitreal, vitrean; diaphanous, diaphane, sheer, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery.
hybrid, n. 1. crossbreed, mixed breed, mongrel; half-breed, half-blood, Sp. mestizo, mulatto, quadroon, quintroon, octoroon, Inf high yellow, Eurasian; mule, degenerate breed, deteriorated breed.
2. mix, mixture, conglomerate, composite, compound, combination, Inf combo; miscellany, Fr. melange, medley, mess, Inf mix; hash, hodgepodge, jumble, patchwork, potpourri, Noah's ark.
-adj. 3. mutated, modified, altered, changed, metamorphosed, transmuted; varied, merged, combined, married.
4. variegated, heterogeneous, intermingled, commingled; impure, contaminated, alloyed, bastard, degenerate, derivative; mongrel, half-blooded, half-bred, half-breed, half-caste, half-and-half.