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1
to pass lightly across or touch gently especially in passing
- accidentally nudged me as they squeezed past
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2
to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action
- the car salesman nudged me into taking a test-drive, even though I had said that I was just looking
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“Nudge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nudge. Accessed 1 Aug. 2021.
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The first known use of nudge was in 1675
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