elbowed
adjUK /ˈɛlbəʊd/ · US /ˈɛlboʊd/
1
Having 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 compounds Having some specific type of elbow.
3
Idiomatic, Informal Sharp-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:
- Derived terms
- elbowedness, sharp-elbowed, unelbowed