accoster

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to come ashore
  2. (transitive) to lay something next to another object
  3. (broadly, transitive) to approach someone; to interrupt someone (especially a stranger, in the street)

Frequency

28k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/a.kɔs.te/
Etymology

From a- + Old French coste + -er. Old French coste has become côte in modern French.

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