0 past simple and past participle of jostle
1 to knock or push roughly against someone in order to move past them or get more space when you are in a crowd of people:
Moral and socio-religious explanations thus jostled for space in a wider teleology of profanation and purification.
Monkeys dislike being jostled, and they demand more elbow-room the higher their social rank.
It was a trial at which spectators jostled for seats, displacing family members from a privileged row behind the accused woman.
Clearly this was happening when clergymen were rough-musicked, or jostled, or mocked in effigy.
The decade was a dynamic one, and multiple views jostled for prominence.
Having theatrical expectations toyed with is one thing; having ontological ones jostled is quite another.
Talk of a new school immediately led to disagreement and fighting, and a variety of people, in particular local elites, jostled to take advantage of possible new opportunities.
Reactionary, even revanchist sentiment and strategies jostled with efforts at reconciliation which occasionally bordered on the visionary.
