(ambitransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.
Allow the person in front of you sufficient space to turn around from the bar with their drinks. Do not jostle past them.
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(intransitive) To move through by pushing and shoving.
1917, Rudyard Kipling, “The Children,” poem accompanying the story “The Honours of War” in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan, pp. 129-130,[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010943658]
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(transitive) To be close to or in physical contact with.
: Our statecraft, our learning
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