What is "elbowing"

Usage examples of "elbowing".

Yet Korin seemed happier here than anywhere else, bawling drunkenly along with raw-throated minstrels or elbowing in beside sailors, dock-hands, and less savory fellows to watch a street fight or a bear baiting.

At their first entry into the theatre, and at their final exit from it, and at their several exits and reentries during the intermissions—when they went to smoke cigarettes in the ornate lobby—the ushers opened just one of the theatre's many doors, and the entire audience had to crush through it, which made for a good deal of rude shoving and elbowing and grumbling.

On the pavement below, two men frowned impatiently, loosened the daggers in their sheaths, and began elbowing their way through the crowd.

There were even people out here, elbowing each other and calling sarcastic questions to the dour mariners.

Aurelianus told him, elbowing him aside and returning the way he'd come.

He looked away and saw Ebers, a cask under one arm, elbowing angry drinkers out of his way as he struggled back toward the table.

He squeezed her fingers in a brisk grip which he broke and, elbowing himself off the pillows, retrieved the cup he had set down and took a long drink.

Everybody was pushing and elbowing to get closer to the rostrum, although great loudspeakers of a public-address system were scattered everywhere, and should guarantee all hearing what was to be said.

The human sea seemed to have frozen, with the exception of one spot, where Monk and Ham were elbowing a path.

Definitely a boy, this one, elbowing the kid in the jacket with a sly look.

He walked as a troubled dreamer, frowning yet unmindful of elbowings and other shoves.