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jostle

[jos-uhl]

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verb (used with object)

to bump, push, shove, brush against, or elbow roughly or rudely.

to drive or force by, or as if by, pushing or shoving: The crowd jostled him into the subway.

to exist in close contact or proximity with: The three families jostle each other in the small house.

to contend with: rival gangs continually jostling each other.

to unsettle; disturb: The thought jostled her complacency.

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Slang. to pick the pocket of.

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verb (used without object)

to bump or brush against someone or something, as in passing or in a crowd; push or shove (often followed by with, for, or against): He jostled for position.

to exist in close contact or proximity with someone or something.

to compete; contend.

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Slang. to pick pockets.

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noun

11.

a shock, push, bump, or brush against someone or something.

Also, justle.

Origin:
1350–1400; variant (in Middle English, variant spelling) of justle, equivalent to just(en) to joust + -le

Related forms

jos·tle·ment, noun

jos·tler, noun

un·jos·tled, adjective

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Example Sentences

Waiting for news of their relatives inside the maternity wards, they jostle urgently to beg a foreign visitor for help.

The outlook for consensus, however, is not good as they jostle for advantage in a reformed system.

The exchange of darts between snails may be painful, however, and there is evidence that snails jostle to hit but not be hit.

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Waiting for news of their relatives inside the maternity wards, they jostle urgently to beg a foreign visitor for help.

The outlook for consensus, however, is not good as they jostle for advantage in a reformed system.

The exchange of darts between snails may be painful, however, and there is evidence that snails jostle to hit but not be hit.

The magnets jostle the electrons until they emit light pulses.

Men jostle women, women jostle fat bullocks, bullocks narrowly avoid stepping on children.

Turbo's lag may jostle your latte, and its ever-present whine is grating.

Hasidic women push strollers on sidewalks where black teen-age boys jostle and joke.

True, it may jostle back and forth and even flip around.

Since then a succession of cyclones and slumping prices have conspired to jostle the crown from the vanilla king's head.

We know that folks are starting to jostle for the president's job.

People politely jostle for position, and give up toilet paper to others.

It is also bustle: people jostle one another in the streets and don't bother to excuse themselves in any dialect.

But with art nowadays the eyes do not always have it: texts, contexts and theories often jostle visual experience aside.

Oil and gas producers often jostle with financial services firms for the top sector spot in merger activity.

Japanese pick-ups and motorbikes jostle with horse-drawn carts.

The doors are opening for the first time, exciting salvors and archeologists around the world as they jostle for position in line.

European leaders jostle to be snapped standing next to him.

The sugar was not affixed to the paper, so the slightest jostle could result in disaster.

Politics is a game of musical chairs between and within these families as they jostle for alliances-or betray one another.

Cranes lift the steel, but men jostle and push and bolt it into place.

German and foreign investors would jostle for stakes that could provide stepping stones to a bid.

When the volume was high, the unit produced clicking noises with every bump and jostle.

And they must jostle with other interests based on money, votes and lung power.

Gangs jostle for turf as they look to establish themselves or to expand.

Squatting vendors of tea and kebab jostle soapbox ranters hawking high ideals and dirty calumny.

Instead the nanowires jostle closer together, but don't break, and still transfer charge into the lithium.

Like its neighborhood, it is for people who crave the jostle of too many bodies in too limited a space.

But interest groups demand ever more from the state, and politicians jostle to promise more goodies.

The lack of any sort of connection gives you design freedom, but also makes them easy to knock over or jostle out of alignment.

Below, shouting women jostle for position with their containers.

Almost nose to nose, an umpire, a manager and a star baseball player are screaming as they jostle for position near home plate.

Refugees from aerie offices jostle for their ration of steak.

Love, fear and jealousy jostle for her attention, but she is centered by her upbringing.

The birds jostle and scavenge their way through the day.

They jostle comically for the ritual photograph as the chief wife tries to control a wayward breast.

Television crews, reporters and park police jostle for position in the peculiar parade through the woods.

Every initiative must traverse an obstacle course, and each hurdle can jostle financial markets anew.

The system eliminates the online jostle to be the first in line.

Bisignani has said that a lack of discipline could dent the industry's recovery as airlines jostle for market share.

While hundreds of thousands jostle for a glimpse of the.

On this first day of the new term hundreds of children and their parents jostle to find a place.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

jostle (ˈdʒɒs^əl)

—vb
1.	to bump or push (someone) roughly
2.	to come or bring into contact
3.	to force (one's way) by pushing

—n
4.	the act of jostling
5.	a rough bump or push

[C14: see joust]

'jostlement

—n

'jostler

—n

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Word Origin & History

jostle

1546, formed from jousten (see joust) + frequentative suffix -tle. The usual spelling 17c.-18c. was justle. An earlier meaning of the word was "to have sex with" (c.1400).

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