[f. ELBOW v. + -ING1.] The action of thrusting with the elbow; concr. a thrust with the elbow.
1820. T. Mitchell, Aristophanes, I. 17. What crowding then and elbowing among them!
1846. W. S. Landor, Imag. Conv., I. 17. I received on the stairs many shoves and elbowings.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, I. I. xiv. (1880), 188. He pushed his way … with a sort of pleasure in the … elbowing.
