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  • verb Present participle of elbow.

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  • noun jostling with the elbows

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Examples

  • (served by Michel Ouellet) too many men minor PIT 19: 57 Evgeni Malkin elbowing minor

    USATODAY.com - Hockey - Pittsburgh vs. Washington 2006

  • The big announcement yesterday that came out of the G-20 is that it is going to become the permanent counsel for international economic cooperation, kind of elbowing aside the G-8.

    CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2009 2009

  • Is laying in some hard knees to the back of Etim but the referee warns him to stop 'elbowing' Etim in the spine.

    FOXSports.com News 2010

  • Rio Ferdinand faces three-match ban as FA charge Manchester United star for 'elbowing' Hull winger ...

    WN.com - Articles related to AC Milan track Joe Cole as Chelsea star waits on new deal at Stamford Bridge 2010

  • If you don't remember, Cole Aldrich fouled out of the game after "elbowing" Damion James.

    Kansan.com stories 2010

  • If you don't remember, Cole Aldrich fouled out of the game after "elbowing" Damion James.

    Kansan.com stories < 2010

  • Is laying in some hard knees to the back of Etim but the referee warns him to stop 'elbowing' Etim in the spine.

    FOXSports.com News 2010

  • Rio Ferdinand faces three-match ban as FA charge Manchester United star for 'elbowing'

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Peter Ridsdale wants FA to investigate Roger Johnson 'elbowing'

    WalesOnline - Home 2009

  • Phillip Pasirayi, the co-ordinator of the Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe, pointed out that the "elbowing" of Chamisa, whom MDC-T sources claimed had brought some sanity in the country's telecommunications sector after holding meetings with all stakeholders, came at a time when there were still crucial outstanding issues that needed to be urgently dealt with by the three principals.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2009

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  • I don't think I have room to list this word, though it might make some for itself.

    October 10, 2008