bump elbows

English

Barack Obama bumps elbows with women in the street, in December 2012

Verb

bump elbows (third-person singular simple present bumps elbows, present participle bumping elbows, simple past and past participle bumped elbows)

1. To touch elbows with another person as a greeting, as a substitute for shaking hands, for instance during a pandemic.

Related terms

• elbow bump
• rub elbows (“associate, mingle”) (not to be confused; idiom)

Anagrams

• elbow bumps