accost

Definitions

• (transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
• (transitive) To join side to side; to border.
• (by extension) To sail along the coast or side of.
• (transitive) To approach; to come up to.
• (transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
• (intransitive) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
• (transitive) To assault.
• (transitive) To solicit sexually.