elbowed

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UK/ˈɛlbəʊd/US/ˈɛlboʊd/

adjective

Having bends or corners.

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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of elbow
adjectiveelbowed (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving bends or corners.

    With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.

    1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
  2. in compoundsnot comparableHaving some specific type of elbow.
  3. idiomaticinformalnot comparableSharp-elbowed: pushy, having a boldly assertive manner intended to establish an advantage.

    Justices in the past have avoided such elbowed writings because their benefits have been seen as smaller than their risks.

    2025 July 17, Aziz Huq, “The Court’s Liberals Are Trying to Tell Americans Something”, in The Atlantic
Cite this entry
APA

elbowed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/elbowed

MLA

“elbowed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/elbowed. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “elbowed,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/elbowed.

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