0 present participle of accost
1 to go up to or stop and speak to someone in a threatening way:
If there is a tout who is obviously touting for business it will be seen that he is accosting people in the street.
They see a man accosting particular individuals who may be walking down the street.
It proposes certain new offences to deal with the accosting of women by men.
We have got rid of loitering as being sufficient grounds for prosecution; we have insisted that there shall be accosting.
What will happen is that it will act as a healthy deterrent on the man who has been used to kerb-crawling and accosting women.
If a man is a kerb-crawler, he is loitering and accosting.
Surely the nuisance is not just going slowly along the kerb, getting out and meeting somebody, but accosting or soliciting somebody.
It is not clear whether men accosting women on the street are a lesser public nuisance than men who solicit from their cars.
