elbowed

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛlbəʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛlboʊd/

elbowed

1. simple past and past participle of elbow

elbowed (not comparable)

1. Having bends or corners.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.

2. (in combination) Having some specific type of elbow.
3. (idiomatic, informal) Sharp-elbowed: pushy, having a boldly assertive manner intended to establish an advantage.
   • 2025 July 17, Aziz Huq, “The Court’s Liberals Are Trying to Tell Americans Something”, in The Atlantic:

     Justices in the past have avoided such elbowed writings because their benefits have been seen as smaller than their risks.

• boweled