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jostle Definition

jos·tle (jäsəl)

transitive verb, intransitive verb -·tled, -·tling

  1. to bump or push, as in a crowd; elbow or shove roughly
  2. to push (one's way) by shoving or bumping
  3. to come or bring into close contact
  4. to contend (with someone for something)

Etymology: earlier justle, freq. < ME justen: see joust

noun

the act of jostling; rough bump or shove

jostle Related Forms

jos·tler noun

jostle Synonyms

jostle

v.

jostle Usage Examples

Object

  • crowd: Then he went off to the bar with the order, pushing his way through the jostling crowd.
  • pack: Although Pierce headed the jostling pack into Gerards, Smith dived ahead at the Hairpin moments later.

Subject

crowd: I feel jostled by a dream crowd when I am trying to buy a dream drink in a dream bar.

Adjective modifier

  • new: Old & new buildings jostle for space near the bus station.
  • other: As other wannabes jostle to express their devastation to the cameras they start to realize that everyone wants to cash in on the tragedy.

Modifying Another Word

  • all: There are perhaps millions of pages in the World Wide Web all jostling for attention.
  • together: The good, the bad and the ugly jostled down together.
  • much: Although there were seats for all there was much jostling to secure corner seats.
  • now: Come the 1983 series, a fourth channel was now jostling for the wandering viewer's attention.
  • about: It would seem that there are two completely separate goals with accompanying differing methods all jostling about within the same tradition.
  • not: Solar systems do not jostle each other in space.

Followed by an intransitive particle

around: There was a rather sad looking trolley being jostled around by a rather sad looking attendant.

Infinitive complement

get: Children ran up to the five Southern Baptist men from North Carolina like they were long-lost uncles, giggling and jostling to get close.

Preposition: for

  • position: The rest of the field raced on to the Senna straight jostling for position.
  • attention: There are perhaps millions of pages in the World Wide Web all jostling for attention.
  • space: Nor could she find a name in the teeming alien words that jostled for space inside her head.
  • spot: Within minutes you'll have a herd of cows jostling for the best spot around it to have a warm.
  • power: Less like Wendy I think there are a lot of them and they jostle for power.
  • place: Jostling for a bench place Gareth Thomas Wellington, 80 Did enough to justify the faith Woodward has in him.

Preposition: by

crowd: I feel jostled by a dream crowd when I am trying to buy a dream drink in a dream bar.

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