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hosselen.

to work hard

8 characters3 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈɦɔ.sə.lə(n)/
  1. to work hard

    Netherlands · Suriname
  2. to acquire something or subsist with difficulty

    Netherlands · Suriname
  3. to obtain money illicitly, especially through drug dealing; to hustle

    Netherlands · Suriname · slang
Where this word comes from

From Surinamese Dutch slang, either from English hustle (which itself derives from Dutch) or directly from hutselen, frequentative of hutsen, from Middle Dutch.

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