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From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#ELBOW Category:English terms derived from Middle English#ELBOW elbowe (“elbow”), from Old English Category:English terms inherited from Old English#ELBOW Category:English terms derived from Old English#ELBOW elboga, elnboga (“elbow”), from Proto-Germanic Category:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#ELBOW Category:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#ELBOW *alinabugô (“elbow”), equivalent to ell +‎ bow. Cognate with Scots elbuck (“elbow”), Saterland Frisian Älbooge (“elbow”), Dutch elleboog (“elbow”), Low German Ellebage (“elbow”), German Ellbogen, Ellenbogen (“elbow”), Danish and Norwegian albue (“elbow”), Faroese albogi, Icelandic olbogi, olnbogi (“elbow”), Swedish armbåge (“elbow”).

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(anatomy Category:en:Anatomy#ELBOW) The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
Synonym: elbow joint
- 1627, Michael Drayton, “The Moone-Calfe”, in English Poetry 1579-1830: Spenser and the Tradition‎, archived from the original on 19 July 2016:
  Up to the elbowes naked were there Armes.
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- 1907, Robert W. Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set‎:
  Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
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(by extension) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window backCategory:English terms with usage examples#ELBOW
- 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor:
  The water runs down with a strong, sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five feet high, overhanging loamily; […]
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(US Category:American English#ELBOW, dated Category:English dated terms#ELBOW, early 20th-century slang Category:English slang#ELBOW) A detective.
- 1924, Dashiell Hammett, Zigzags of Treachery:
  "An elbow, huh?" putting all the contempt he could in his voice; and somehow any synonym for detective seems able to hold a lot of contempt.
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(basketball Category:en:Basketball#ELBOW) Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.^[1]
A hit, strike, or blow with the elbow.
- 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 200:
  In the fair dinkum department that elbow prop Barrie McDermott threw into the face of Paul Sironen deserved to get him four months on the side-lines[.]
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- 2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport‎, archived from the original on 21 April 2019:
  England ran Tunisia ragged in that spell but were punished for missing a host of chances when Ferjani Sassi equalised from the penalty spot against the run of play after Kyle Walker was penalised for an elbow on Fakhreddine Ben Youssef.
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(knots) Two nearby crossings of a rope.

joint between upper arm and forearm

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pipe fitting

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a hit with the elbow

two nearby crossings of a rope

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elbow (third-person singular simple present elbows, present participle elbowing, simple past and past participle elbowed)Category:English lemmas#ELBOW Category:English verbs#ELBOW Category:English entries with incorrect language header#ELBOW Category:Pages with entries#ELBOW Category:Pages with 2 entries#ELBOW

(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#ELBOW) To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist.
He elbowed his way through the crowd.Category:English terms with usage examples#ELBOW
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
  Through the crush Malone and Roxton elbowed their way until they reached Challenger's side, and partly by judicious propulsion, partly by artful persuasion, they got him, still bellowing his grievances, out of the building.
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- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 277:
  On the DLR, or on the driverless Line 14 on the Paris Metro, I always try to sit at the front. (It's usually just a matter of elbowing aside some ten-year-old boys; I can then get on with pretending to drive the train.)
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To strike with the elbow.
- 1953, George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin, McGraw Hill Books Company, Inc., published 1954, page 166:
  Trumper elbowed me in the ribs and made a sign with his head. He seemed irritated now by our delay.
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- 1975, Marjorie Darke, A Question of Courage, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Kestrel Books, →ISBN, page 108:
  She looked round for Vera, but could not see her, and in the process of wriggling through the heaving crowd was elbowed in the eye. The blow acted like a spur, putting one thought in her head … to escape.
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- 2001 November 24, Mil Millington, “Things my girlfriend and I argue about”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 February 2021:
  Anyway, Margret is already asleep. I put my head on the pillow and am just about to inch warmth-seekingly closer to her when she suddenly elbows me full in the face with stupefying force. My howl of pain wakes her and she glances over her shoulder at her elbow, still embedded in my skull.
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- 2022 May 4, Tania Ganguli, “Against Grizzlies, Golden State Warriors Feel Range of Emotions”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 December 2022:
  Green also left the game in the first quarter after Xavier Tillman inadvertently elbowed him in the face. Hearing boos from the crowd, [Draymond] Green raised his middle fingers toward the fans as he left the court to get stitches above his right eye.
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To nudge, jostle or push.
- 1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 105:
  Suddenly and with all her heart Kate longed to be home, back at the homestead, to participate in the rambunctious toss and jostle as breakup elbowed its way into the Park.
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(informal Category:English informal terms#ELBOW, with "out" or "aside") To force (someone) to quit or lose their job so that someone else can be hired.
The president was elbowed out of power by members of her own party.Category:English terms with usage examples#ELBOW

to push with the elbow

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↑ Newell, Pete; Nater, Swen (2008). Pete Newell's Playing Big. Human Kinetics. p.26: ISBN 9780736068093. Retrieved April 11, 2013.

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alternative form of elbowe

[1] Newell, Pete; Nater, Swen (2008). Pete Newell's Playing Big. Human Kinetics. p.26: ISBN 9780736068093. Retrieved April 11, 2013.

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