JOSTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jostle mean? 

• JOSTLE (noun)
  The noun JOSTLE has 1 sense:

1. the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing)

  Familiarity information: JOSTLE used as a noun is very rare.

• JOSTLE (verb)
  The verb JOSTLE has 2 senses:

1. make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving

2. come into rough contact with while moving

  Familiarity information: JOSTLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOSTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

jostle; jostling

Hypernyms ("jostle" is a kind of...):

shove (the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jostle"):

elbowing (jostling with the elbows)

Derivation:

jostle (come into rough contact with while moving)

jostle (make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving)

• JOSTLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they jostle    ... he / she / it jostles   
Past simple: jostled   
Past participle: jostled   
-ing form: jostling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

We had to jostle our way to the front of the platform

Hypernyms (to "jostle" is one way to...):

make; work (proceed along a path)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

jostle; jostling (the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Come into rough contact with while moving

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

jostle; shove

Context example:

The passengers jostled each other in the overcrowded train

Hypernyms (to "jostle" is one way to...):

force; push (move with force)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jostle"):

elbow (push one's way with the elbows)

shoulder in (push one's way in with one's shoulders)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

jostle; jostling (the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing))

 Context examples 

I had much for which to thank Wolf Larsen, was my thought as we went along the path between the jostling harems.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Only one of those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have four million human beings all jostling each other within the space of a few square miles.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As with the running mate on the left, she repelled these attentions with her teeth; but when both bestowed their attentions at the same time she was roughly jostled, being compelled, with quick snaps to either side, to drive both lovers away and at the same time to maintain her forward leap with the pack and see the way of her feet before her.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

At the other end of the yard was an open door sharply outlined by the gleam of lanterns within, and through this they poured, amateurs and fighting-men jostling each other in their eagerness to get to the front.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Baldly as he had stated it, in his eyes was a rich vision of that hot, starry night at Salina Cruz, the white strip of beach, the lights of the sugar steamers in the harbor, the voices of the drunken sailors in the distance, the jostling stevedores, the flaming passion in the Mexican's face, the glint of the beast-eyes in the starlight, the sting of the steel in his neck, and the rush of blood, the crowd and the cries, the two bodies, his and the Mexican's, locked together, rolling over and over and tearing up the sand, and from away off somewhere the mellow tinkling of a guitar.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then came archers of the guard, shrill-voiced women of the camp, English pages with their fair skins and blue wondering eyes, dark-robed friars, lounging men-at-arms, swarthy loud-tongued Gascon serving-men, seamen from the river, rude peasants of the Medoc, and becloaked and befeathered squires of the court, all jostling and pushing in an ever-changing, many-colored stream, while English, French, Welsh, Basque, and the varied dialects of Gascony and Guienne filled the air with their babel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the mingled reality and mystery of the whole show, the influence upon me of the poetry, the lights, the music, the company, the smooth stupendous changes of glittering and brilliant scenery, were so dazzling, and opened up such illimitable regions of delight, that when I came out into the rainy street, at twelve o'clock at night, I felt as if I had come from the clouds, where I had been leading a romantic life for ages, to a bawling, splashing, link-lighted, umbrella-struggling, hackney-coach-jostling, patten-clinking, muddy, miserable world.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)