ACCOST

hook, solicit, accost

(verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors; “he was solicited by a prostitute”; “The young man was caught soliciting in the park”

address, accost, come up to

(verb) speak to someone

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

accost (third-person singular simple present accosts, present participle accosting, simple past and past participle accosted)

(transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.

(transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border.

(by extension, transitive, obsolete) To sail along the coast or side of.

(transitive, obsolete) To approach; to come up to.

(transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.

(intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.

(transitive) To assault.

(transitive) To solicit sexually.

Noun

accost (plural accosts)

(rare) Address; greeting.

An attack.

Anagrams

• coacts

Source: Wiktionary

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Ac*cost" (#; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Accosting.] Etym: [F. accoster, LL. accostare to bring side by side; L. ad + costa rib, side. See Coast, and cf. Accoast.]

1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.

2. To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] Shak.

3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.

Ac*cost", v. i.

Definition: To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.

Ac*cost", n.

Definition: Address; greeting. [R.] J. Morley.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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