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Definition of accost in English: accostverb əˈkɒst [with object]Approach and address (someone) boldly or aggressively. reporters accosted him in the street he was accosted by a thief, demanding his money or his life Example sentencesExamples - A few minutes ago he was accosted by reporters after locking horns with the Prime Minister during question period.
- You're strolling absent-mindedly down Coney Street, minding your own business and glancing idly at the displays in shop windows, when an officious little man in a yellow reflective jacket pops out of nowhere and accosts you.
- THERE'S (yet another) famous family story about the time my parents went to a neighbourhood party and a woman accosted my mother over the punchbowl, raving about what a good listener my father was.
- Everybody can stop e-mailing, IMing, and accosting me on the street: I had absolutely nothing to do with this.
- Making my way through the train I was accosted by a very angry woman.
- I am walking speedily along New York's Fifth Avenue when this elegant stranger accosts me, grabs my arm in a vice-like grip and hisses, ‘Where did you get that pin?’
- I recall accosting some rowdy teenagers outside my house: my few cautionary words were met with a hail of stones, too small to injure but enough to frighten and humiliate.
- As he accosted parents outside a school in Rotherhithe with a final piece of canvassing yesterday afternoon, he predicted his party would get the most seats since 1923 and the biggest share of the vote since 1983.
- Once aboard, to his fugitive embarrassment, he is accosted by a young girl he vaguely remembers.
- It's not that I make a habit of accosting MPs in health food shops, it's just that I mistakenly believed I knew him.
- I considering accosting a hapless victim in the produce department.
- More recently, we've seen six-foot koalas accosting political leaders and asking in depth questions on real issues.
- Examing the display outside of my chosen shop, I was accosted by some youths, of thirteen years or so, who desired that I bought some fireworks on their behalf, a transaction I declined.
- As she got off the plane in Belgium, she was accosted by reporters asking if she was taking anabolic steroids.
- It won't be long now until it will be no longer safe to walk the streets, without hoards of mad students in tartan trousers and kaftans accosting you with home made fliers.
- But before she spoke Ms Morris was accosted by a placard-waving group of about 20 protesters demanding that they should be paid all year round, not just in term time.
- His story begins in 1972 when Douglas was accosted at a bus stop in Edinburgh by two bolshie 12-year-olds.
- The larger London department stores are moving away from your more traditional Grotto based lap-sitting experiences and towards a more drive-by Santa encounter where the failed beardy actor accosts you on the shop floor.
- Earlier in the morning, jockey Walter Cullum accosted King while the latter spoke with reporters.
- I do, however, have a problem with people accosting me on the street and begging me in their particularly weird way to donate money to African babies.
- I walk into a house in one of the towns and an old man accosts me ‘Hi there young man.’
Synonyms speak to, talk to, call to, shout to, hail, initiate a discussion with address, approach, waylay, take aside, detain, stop, halt, grab, catch, confront, importune, solicit informal buttonhole, collar British informal nobble
Origin Late 16th century (originally in the sense 'lie or go alongside'): from French accoster, from Italian accostare, from Latin ad- 'to' + costa 'rib, side'. Rhymes cost, frost, lost, Prost, riposte Definition of accost in US English: accostverb [with object]Approach and address (someone) boldly or aggressively. reporters accosted him in the street he was accosted by a thief, demanding his money or his life Example sentencesExamples - THERE'S (yet another) famous family story about the time my parents went to a neighbourhood party and a woman accosted my mother over the punchbowl, raving about what a good listener my father was.
- Examing the display outside of my chosen shop, I was accosted by some youths, of thirteen years or so, who desired that I bought some fireworks on their behalf, a transaction I declined.
- The larger London department stores are moving away from your more traditional Grotto based lap-sitting experiences and towards a more drive-by Santa encounter where the failed beardy actor accosts you on the shop floor.
- More recently, we've seen six-foot koalas accosting political leaders and asking in depth questions on real issues.
- Once aboard, to his fugitive embarrassment, he is accosted by a young girl he vaguely remembers.
- Making my way through the train I was accosted by a very angry woman.
- You're strolling absent-mindedly down Coney Street, minding your own business and glancing idly at the displays in shop windows, when an officious little man in a yellow reflective jacket pops out of nowhere and accosts you.
- Everybody can stop e-mailing, IMing, and accosting me on the street: I had absolutely nothing to do with this.
- Earlier in the morning, jockey Walter Cullum accosted King while the latter spoke with reporters.
- I considering accosting a hapless victim in the produce department.
- I walk into a house in one of the towns and an old man accosts me ‘Hi there young man.’
- I am walking speedily along New York's Fifth Avenue when this elegant stranger accosts me, grabs my arm in a vice-like grip and hisses, ‘Where did you get that pin?’
- It's not that I make a habit of accosting MPs in health food shops, it's just that I mistakenly believed I knew him.
- It won't be long now until it will be no longer safe to walk the streets, without hoards of mad students in tartan trousers and kaftans accosting you with home made fliers.
- But before she spoke Ms Morris was accosted by a placard-waving group of about 20 protesters demanding that they should be paid all year round, not just in term time.
- I do, however, have a problem with people accosting me on the street and begging me in their particularly weird way to donate money to African babies.
- As he accosted parents outside a school in Rotherhithe with a final piece of canvassing yesterday afternoon, he predicted his party would get the most seats since 1923 and the biggest share of the vote since 1983.
- I recall accosting some rowdy teenagers outside my house: my few cautionary words were met with a hail of stones, too small to injure but enough to frighten and humiliate.
- His story begins in 1972 when Douglas was accosted at a bus stop in Edinburgh by two bolshie 12-year-olds.
- As she got off the plane in Belgium, she was accosted by reporters asking if she was taking anabolic steroids.
- A few minutes ago he was accosted by reporters after locking horns with the Prime Minister during question period.
Synonyms speak to, talk to, call to, shout to, hail, initiate a discussion with
Origin Late 16th century (originally in the sense ‘lie or go alongside’): from French accoster, from Italian accostare, from Latin ad- ‘to’ + costa ‘rib, side’. |