Usually means: Activity and movement, often hurried.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word bustle:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bustle: Merriam-Webster
  2. bustle, bustle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bustle, bustle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bustle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bustle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bustle, bustle: Wordnik
  7. bustle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bustle: Wiktionary
  9. bustle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bustle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bustle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bustle, bustle: Dictionary.com
  13. bustle (1), bustle (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bustle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bustle (disambiguation), Bustle (magazine), Bustle (regalia), Bustle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bustle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bustle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bustle: Rhymezone
  19. bustle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bustle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BUSTLE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. bustle: FreeDictionary.org
  23. bustle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bustle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. bustle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bustle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bustle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bustle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bustle, bustle, bustle, bustle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bustle: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of Corset-related Words and Terms (No longer online)
  2. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)

(Note: See bustled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable) An excited activity; a stir.
noun:  (computing, countable) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
noun:  (historical, countable) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.
verb:  To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).
verb:  To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).
verb:  (transitive) To push around, to importune.
noun:  A surname from German.

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