Definition of "accost" []

• To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. (verb-transitive)
• To solicit for sex. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You mistake, knight; 'accost' is front her, board her, woo her, assail her."
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• "They saw him slouch for'ard after breakfast, and, like a mendicant, with outstretched palm, accost a sailor."