jostled
pushed and shoved
TRANSLATION
jostle = anrempeln, schubsen, drängeln --- GOOGLE INDEX jostle: approximately 600,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Police were forced to step in when Irish prime minister Brian Cowen was JOSTLED by protesters at the Irish championships.
(BBC News)
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Microsoft, Google, Startups JOSTLE for Attention at Web 2.0 Summit
(EWeek - News Headline)
(BBC News)
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Microsoft, Google, Startups JOSTLE for Attention at Web 2.0 Summit
(EWeek - News Headline)
Did you
know?
jostle
verb
- to knock or push roughly against someone in order to move past them or get more space when you are in a crowd of people
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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For those tired of being jostled while standing in long supermarket lines on Saturday, technology may come to the rescue.
A German supermarket announced in 2008 that customers will be able to scan and ring up their items using mobile phones and then check out without the help of a cashier.
Customers have to snap pictures of the bar codes on all groceries as they load up the cart. At check-out time, the recorded bar codes are added up and consolidated into another bar code. An automated kiosk takes care of scanning the bar code on the mobile phone display and prompts the customer for payment.
It's unclear whether this will put an end to jostling or whether customers will simply jostle to see who gets to scan first.
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SYNONYMS
bang into, bulldoze, butt, elbow, nudge, push around, push aside, shoulder, shove, squeeze
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Check your pockets if you get jostled, someone may have stolen your wallet or purse."
verb
- to knock or push roughly against someone in order to move past them or get more space when you are in a crowd of people
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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For those tired of being jostled while standing in long supermarket lines on Saturday, technology may come to the rescue.
A German supermarket announced in 2008 that customers will be able to scan and ring up their items using mobile phones and then check out without the help of a cashier.
Customers have to snap pictures of the bar codes on all groceries as they load up the cart. At check-out time, the recorded bar codes are added up and consolidated into another bar code. An automated kiosk takes care of scanning the bar code on the mobile phone display and prompts the customer for payment.
It's unclear whether this will put an end to jostling or whether customers will simply jostle to see who gets to scan first.
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SYNONYMS
bang into, bulldoze, butt, elbow, nudge, push around, push aside, shoulder, shove, squeeze
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Check your pockets if you get jostled, someone may have stolen your wallet or purse."
