"sharp-elbowed" meaning in All languages combined

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      "form": "more sharp-elbowed",
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    },
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      "form": "most sharp-elbowed",
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          "ref": "1802, William Wordsworth, The Pedlar:",
          "text": ". . . dire faces, figures dire,\nSharp-knee'd, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Pushy; having a boldly assertive manner intended to establish an advantage."
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          "establish",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) Pushy; having a boldly assertive manner intended to establish an advantage."
      ],
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        "informal",
        "not-comparable",
        "usually"
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      "tags": [
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    },
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      "form": "most sharp-elbowed",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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    }
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1802, William Wordsworth, The Pedlar:",
          "text": ". . . dire faces, figures dire,\nSharp-knee'd, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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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        }
      ],
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        "Possessing narrow, bony, rather pointed elbows."
      ],
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          "bony",
          "bony"
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          "pointed",
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        "usually"
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        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
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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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Pushy; having a boldly assertive manner intended to establish an advantage."
      ],
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          "manner"
        ],
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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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        "not-comparable",
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