elbowed
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]elbowed
- simple past and past participle of elbow
Adjective
[edit]elbowed (not comparable)
- Having bends or corners.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
- (in combination) Having some specific type of elbow.
- (idiomatic, informal) Sharp-elbowed: pushy, having a boldly assertive manner intended to establish an advantage.
- 2025 July 17, Aziz Huq, “The Court’s Liberals Are Trying to Tell Americans Something”, in The Atlantic:
- Justices in the past have avoided such elbowed writings because their benefits have been seen as smaller than their risks.