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/Sounds like the English word "jos" + "EH" (as in "egg") + "oh" (as in "oh")/

Meaning

In Puerto Rico, the daily hustle of finding money by any honest means possible. The "joseo" is a mindset of not sitting around waiting for things to happen.

Examples

The hustle never stops, every day I come up with something.

With that kind of hustle he's going to go far.

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Regional synonyms

A strange, clever, or hard-to-read person who always seems to have a plan up their sleeve. In Argentina a "bicho" is someone you can never quite figure out: they always know more than they let on, which makes them fascinating or untrustworthy depending on the situation.