Definitions for elbows

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elbows el·bow

Spelling: [el-boh]

IPA: /ˈɛl boʊ/

Elbows is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in elbows (belosw).

Definitions for elbows

noun

1. the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
2. the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped.
3. something bent like an elbow, as a sharp turn in a road or river, or a piece of pipe bent at an angle.
4. Architecture. crossette.
5. Also called ell, el. a plumbing pipe or pipe connection having a right-angled bend.

Idioms

1. at one's elbow, within easy reach; nearby:
2. bend / lift / crook an elbow, Informal. to drink alcoholic beverages.
3. give the elbow, shove aside, get rid of, or reject.
4. out at the elbows, poorly dressed; shabby. impoverished. Also, out at elbows.
5. rub elbows with, to mingle socially with; associate with:
6. up to one's elbows, very busy; engrossed: Also, up to the elbows.

verb (used with object)

1. to push with or as if with the elbow; jostle.
2. to make (one's way) by so pushing.

verb (used without object)

1. to elbow one's way:

Origin of elbows

before 1000; Middle English elbowe, Old English el(n)boga; cognate with Middle Dutch elle(n)bōghe, Old High German el(l)inbogo (German Ellenbogen), Old Norse ǫl(n)bogi; literally, “forearm-be

Examples for elbows

Once, seeing Palmer reading Dr. Zhivago, teammate Steve Stone said, "It must be about an elbow specialist."

The medicine-tray lay at Carlotta's elbow; beside it the box of labels.

Not until there was a convulsive jerk of Dozier's elbow did he stir his folded arms.

He found Austin sitting on the chair by his desk, resting his chin on his elbow.

Soon the Chestnut's head showed past his elbow, and they were both lapped on the Black.

What the state really needs is to figure out how to elbow its way into the tech economy.

I shut my eyes yet felt aware of the garden at my elbow, the blooms opening as if in time-lapse, the stalks lengthening.

Then aloud he repeated the question, touching the bookmaker on the elbow.

He changed sliders three times until he found one that didn't hurt his elbow.

We never tell him, 'Great screwball,' though, because then his elbow would hurt.