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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
  2. v. To solicit for sex.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To come side by side or face to face with; draw near; approach; make up to.
  2. To speak to; address.
  3. To border on; adjoin.
  4. To adjoin; be adjacent.
  5. n. The act of accosting; address; salutation.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
  2. v. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
  3. v. To approach; to make up to
  4. v. To speak to first; to address; to greet.
  5. v. To adjoin; to lie alongside
  6. n. Address; greeting.
  7. v. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
  8. v. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
  9. v. To approach; to make up to
  10. v. To speak to first; to address; to greet.
  11. v. To adjoin; to lie alongside
  12. n. Address; greeting.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
  2. v. To approach; to make up to.
  3. v. To speak to first; to address; to greet.
  4. v. To adjoin; to lie alongside.
  5. n. Address; greeting.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. approach with an offer of sexual favors
  2. v. speak to someone

Etymologies

  1. French accoster, from Old French, from Medieval Latin accostāre, to adjoin : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin costa, side; see kost- in Indo-European roots.

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