jostle
11jostle — jostlement, n. jostler, n. /jos euhl/, v., jostled, jostling, n. v.t. 1. to bump, push, shove, brush against, or elbow roughly or rudely. 2. to drive or force by, or as if by, pushing or shoving: The crowd jostled him into the subway. 3. to exist …
12jostle — jos|tle [ˈdʒɔsəl US ˈdʒa: ] v [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: joust; JOUSTING] 1.) [I and T] to push or knock against someone in a crowd, especially so that you can get somewhere or do something before other people jostle for ▪ Followers of the… …
13jostle — jos|tle [ dʒasl ] verb 1. ) intransitive or transitive to push against someone because you are trying to move past them in a crowd: We managed to jostle our way to the front. 2. ) intransitive to compete for something: two candidates jostling for …
14jostle — [[t]ʤɒ̱s(ə)l[/t]] jostles, jostling, jostled 1) VERB If people jostle you, they bump against you or push you in a way that annoys you, usually because you are in a crowd and they are trying to get past you. [V n] You get 2,000 people jostling… …
15jostle — verb push or bump against roughly. ↘(jostle for) struggle or compete forcefully for. noun the action of jostling. Origin ME justle, from just, an earlier form of joust …
16jostle — verb 1) jostled by the crowd Syn: bump into/against, knock into/against, bang into, collide with, plow into, jolt; push, shove, elbow, mob, shoulder; informal barrel into, bulldoze 2) media empires jostle to catch the eye of Asian readers and… …
17jostle — [ˈdʒɒs(ə)l] verb 1) [I] to compete for something The two parties are jostling for control of the parliament.[/ex] 2) [I/T] to push against someone in order to move past them in a crowd We managed to jostle our way to the front.[/ex] …
18jostle for something — ˈjostle for sth derived to compete strongly and with force with other people for sth • People in the crowd were jostling for the best positions. Main entry: ↑jostlederived …
19jostle for — phr verb Jostle for is used with these nouns as the object: ↑attention, ↑position, ↑space …
20jostle for — struggle or compete forcefully for. → jostle …
