Jostle

Quick meaning: Jostle is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To move through by pushing and shoving.
2. (transitive) To be close to or in physical contact with.
3. (intransitive) To contend or vie in order to acquire something.
4. The act of jostling someone or something; push, shove.
5. The action of a jostling crowd.
6. (dated, slang) To pick or attempt to pick pockets.

Example Sentences

His locks […] / […] like a juicy and jostling shock / Of bluebells sheaved in May

Allow the person in front of you sufficient space to turn around from the bar with their drinks. Do not jostle past them.

Axia and Amory, acquaintances of an hour, jostled behind a waiter to a table at a point of vantage; there they took seats and watched.

[…] when the lord of a Lincolnshire or Shropshire manor appeared in Fleet Street, he was as easily distinguished from the resident population as a Turk or a Lascar. […] Bullies jostled him into the kennel. Hackney coachmen splashed him from head to foot. […]

Word Forms

• jostles
• jostling
• jostled

Synonyms for jostle

Depending on context, synonyms include shove, jostling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shove, elbow, joggle, jounce, justle, jolt.

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