Definitions for jostle

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jostle jos·tle

Spelling: [jos-uh l]

IPA: /ˈdʒɒs əl/

Jostle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in jostle (ejlost).

Definitions for jostle

noun

1. a shock, push, bump, or brush against someone or something.

verb (used with object)

1. to bump, push, shove, brush against, or elbow roughly or rudely.
2. to drive or force by, or as if by, pushing or shoving:
3. to exist in close contact or proximity with:
4. to contend with:
5. to unsettle; disturb:
6. Slang. to pick the pocket of.

verb (used without object)

1. to bump or brush against someone or something, as in passing or in a crowd; push or shove (often followed by with, for, or against):
2. to exist in close contact or proximity with someone or something.
3. to compete; contend.
4. Slang. to pick pockets.

Origin of jostle

1350-1400; variant (in Middle English, variant spelling) of justle, equivalent to just(en) to joust + -le

Examples for jostle

And working men may keep the wall, and jostle prince and peer.

Outside of the U.S. embassy, thousands of Americans and Haitians jostle daily for a ticket off the island.

Singularly, the circle parted right and left in a jostle and a scramble.

I wish you would row as carefully as you can, Neddie, so as not to jostle them much.

Well; we, in trifling with this jingling toy, have had the ill-luck to jostle and fall out.

Let us not jostle and crowd each other too harshly, while we are en route.

I have little fancy for the whirl of society, and none for the jostle of politics.

Some folk will answer that life itself settles all that, with its jostle and bustle.

He did not seem to wear well with the people in the daily run and jostle of life.

Your roads in life are so numerous and so varied, that you need not jostle.