jostle
挤来挤去,挤挤挨挨,挤眉弄眼,挤兑
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Definitions
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jos·tled, jos·tling.
- : 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.
- : Slang. to pick the pocket of.
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jos·tled, jos·tling.
- : to bump or brush against someone or something, as in passing or in a crowd; push or shove: He jostled for position.
- : to exist in close contact or proximity with someone or something.
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Examples
The cops gingerly transported King to a hospital, rightly guessing that the slightest jostle could have proved fatal.
Merchandise meetings and legal jargon jostle uncomfortably with superheroics, pajama parties with saving the world.
Outside of the U.S. embassy, thousands of Americans and Haitians jostle daily for a ticket off the island.
The two chief bears rush at the Master and the other bears jostle round them, egging them on.
In short, he may gratify his every whim and fancy, without a pang of reposing conscience, or the least jostle of his self-respect.
The people crowd, the groundlings jostle, men of quality press forward to the platform.
In Oxford and Cambridge town and University are mixed together; shops jostle and elbow colleges in the streets.
The count also had dealings with the silversmith; for in the quartier Juif all classes meet and jostle each other.