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Date: 1500-1600
Language: French
Origin: accoster, from Latin costa 'rib, side'

accost

 verb
     
ac‧cost [transitive] written
to go towards someone you do not know and speak to them in an unpleasant or threatening way:
He was accosted by four youths and forced to give them all his money.
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