<p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to bump, push, shove, brush against, or elbow roughly or rudely.</li><li>to drive or force by, or as if by, pushing or shoving: The crowd jostled him into the subway.</li><li>to exist in close contact or proximity with: The three families jostle each other in the small house.</li><li>to contend with: rival gangs continually jostling each other.</li><li>to unsettle; disturb: The thought jostled her complacency.</li><li>Slang: to pick the pocket of.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a shock, push, bump, or brush against someone or something.</li></ul>