nudge

Object

• wink: Hope to see you at Chunkie's party, will you be wearing " it " again, nudge nudge wink wink?
• ball: Number 2 easily nudged the ball against the swaying net prompting a Danish fan to start a red flare.
• degree: The show has been running for the past 165 years and temperatures nudging 27 degrees swelled the numbers of families heading to Penshaw.

Converse of object

• need: Sometimes planners need a nudge in the right direction.
• give: However it seems that I was given a nudge in the direction I am meant to take.
• get: When you get a nudge you may or may not have a win.

Adjective modifier

• gentle: These figures are also a gentle nudge to those people who are still opting for bottled water.
• slight: A slight nudge, a power surge, or a contaminant introduced into the drive may cause the head to touch the platter.
• little: He gave Daniel a little nudge with his shoulder.

Modifies a noun

• bar: Complete with nudge bar and headboard, detail once again is of the highest order.

Modifying Another Word

• gently: I easily steer Lawann through them with gently nudging knees.
• slowly: Southampton are a big, rag bag of a team and they slowly nudged their way back into the game.
• ahead: In recent weeks, the overall audience share for multichannel stations has nudged ahead of their terrestrial rivals for the first time.
• just: He would force them wide without conceding stupid free kicks, and more often than not just nudging the ball away from his opponent.
• then: Hold All - the player is prompted to hold all the reels, a win is then nudges in.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• along: Very recently there has been a giant leap forward in Scotland, nudged along by the DDA.
• up: In any town center, a medieval church can be seen nudging up to a building society office or a public convenience.
• out: And when he nudge out of native of coral.

Followed by a transitive particle

• off: With that his stick nudged off the top of the heap revealing a blue, ashen face, contorted in agony.

Preposition: in

• direction: Clearly they need a bit of a nudge in the right direction.