accost

Plural: accosts

Verb

Verb Forms: accosted, accosting, accosts

To approach and address someone boldly or aggressively.
speak to someone
approach with an offer of sexual favors
To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
To join side to side; to border.
To sail along the coast or side of.
To approach; to come up to.
To speak to first; to address; to greet.
To adjoin; to lie alongside.
To assault.
To solicit sexually.

Noun

Address; greeting.
An attack.

Examples

A beggar accosted me as soon as I stepped outside.
He planned to accost his opponent after the game about that dubious bingo.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle French accoster, acoster, from Old French acoster (“to stand beside”) (whence Medieval Latin accostare), from Old French a- + coste (“side, flank”).

Synonyms

address, come up to, hook, solicit, waylay

Scrabble Score: 10

accost: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
accost: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
accost: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

accost: valid Words With Friends Word