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单词 cross-and-jostle
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cross-and-jostle
cross-and-jostle n. applied to a race in which the riders cross each other's paths and jostle each other, getting to the winning-post as they like, by fair riding or foul; also figurative.
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1841 T. P. Thompson Let. 20 Jan. in Exercises (1842) VI. 52 And because there would be no use in two thousand men agreeing to die upon half the food that can keep soul and body together, they either toss up for it or play a cross-and-jostle match.
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