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accost

ac·cost [ ə káwst ] (past and past participle ac·cost·ed, present participle ac·cost·ing, 3rd person present singular ac·costs)


transitive verb 
Definition:
 
approach and stop somebody: to approach and stop somebody in order to speak to that person, especially in an aggressive, insistent, or suggestive way

[Late 16th century. Via French< Latin accostare "adjoin" < costa "rib, side"]

ac·cost·er noun
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