"sharp-elbowed" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1802, William Wordsworth, The Pedlar",
          "roman": "Sharp-knee'd, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too",
          "text": ". . . dire faces, figures dire,",
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          "ref": "1882, Oliver Wendell Holmes, chapter 1, in The Professor at the Breakfast Table",
          "text": "—Go to the Bible!—said a sharp voice from a sharp-faced, sharp-eyed, sharp-elbowed, strenuous-looking woman in a black dress.",
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        "Possessing narrow, bony, rather pointed elbows."
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          "ref": "1977 Oct. 24, Michael and Ariane Batterberry, \"Party Politics,\" New York Magazine, p. 81 (Google preview)",
          "text": "No sooner had President Washington been sworn in, wearing mousy, egalitarian brown broadcloth, than the sharp-elbowed jockeying for social status began."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990 September 17, Richard Behar, “A Music King's Shattering Fall”, in Time, retrieved 2015-06-28",
          "text": "With his stocky build, spread-collar shirts and locker-room charm, Walter Yetnikoff fit right in among the sharp-elbowed power brokers in the music business.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014 December 4, Brooks Barnes, Michael Cieply, “Documentaries Jostle Against Oscar Obscurity”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-06-28",
          "text": "Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees.",
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        "Pushy; having a boldly assertive manner intended to establish an advantage."
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        "(idiomatic, informal) Pushy; having a boldly assertive manner intended to establish an advantage."
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        },
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          "ref": "1882, Oliver Wendell Holmes, chapter 1, in The Professor at the Breakfast Table",
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          "ref": "1977 Oct. 24, Michael and Ariane Batterberry, \"Party Politics,\" New York Magazine, p. 81 (Google preview)",
          "text": "No sooner had President Washington been sworn in, wearing mousy, egalitarian brown broadcloth, than the sharp-elbowed jockeying for social status began."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990 September 17, Richard Behar, “A Music King's Shattering Fall”, in Time, retrieved 2015-06-28",
          "text": "With his stocky build, spread-collar shirts and locker-room charm, Walter Yetnikoff fit right in among the sharp-elbowed power brokers in the music business.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 December 4, Brooks Barnes, Michael Cieply, “Documentaries Jostle Against Oscar Obscurity”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-06-28",
          "text": "Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees.",
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        }
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        "(idiomatic, informal) Pushy; having a boldly assertive manner intended to establish an advantage."
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