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ELBOWING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does elbowing mean?
• ELBOWING (noun)
The noun ELBOWING has 1 sense:
1. jostling with the elbows
Familiarity information: ELBOWING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Jostling with the elbows
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
elbowing is a foul in basketball
Hypernyms ("elbowing" is a kind of...):
jostle; jostling (the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing))
Derivation:
elbow (push one's way with the elbows)
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