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- noun One who
jostles .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I think I became a bad guy when Bill Clinton needed me to become a bad guy-for the same reason a pickpocket needs a "jostler" - to create a diversion.
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If your elbow gets jostled, you will receive a perfunctory apology from the jostler.
kinaesthesia Diary Entry kinaesthesia 2003
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Although unable to espy the actual perpetrator of the theft, who had, with commendable discretion and alacrity, completely vanished, he had realized that the jostler must have been his confederate, and had pursued the said confederate for over half a mile, before being eluded by the Arab in a crowded thoroughfare.
The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985
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Has there been an accident? "she inquired of the nearest jostler.
Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings Annie Hamilton Donnell
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