ACCOST
ADJECTIVES
► ACCOSTABLE ready to accost, courteous → 1622 obs.
VERBS
► ABORD to accost → 1611 obs.
► AFFRONT to accost, to address; to put oneself in the way of so as to meet → 1598 obs.
► BOARD to accost a person → 1867 N. Ireland
► BUTTON-HOLD to accost a person and detain him or her in conversation as if by taking hold of a buttonhole on his or her clothing, frequently so as to persuade or influence him or her → 1838
► BUTTONHOLE to accost a person and detain him or her in conversation as if by taking hold of a buttonhole on his or her clothing → 1848
► BUZZ to accost or proposition → 1866 Amer. sl.
► SPRAG to accost truculently → 1916 Aust. sl.
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