elbowed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of elbow. Use this form for pushing with your arm in the past.

   She elbowed her way to the front of the line.

   He accidentally elbowed me while reaching for the door.

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2. 2
   adjectivecolloquialidiomatic

   Pushy and forceful in a way meant to get ahead of other people.

   His sharp-elbowed tactics won him the deal, but they cost him a few friends.

   She is too sharp-elbowed to wait her turn in line.

   Similarpushy, aggressive, assertive

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3. 3
   adjective

   Having bends or corners, like a pipe that turns at an angle.

   The narrow, elbowed street turned twice before it reached the square.

   We needed an elbowed connector to turn the hose downward.

   Similarangled, bent, crooked

   Oppositestraight

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4. 4
   adjectivein compounds

   Having elbows of a certain kind, used in words like bony-elbowed.

   Grandpa gave us a stiff-elbowed wave from the porch.

   A bony-elbowed boy kept poking me on the crowded bus.

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