Jostles is a term used to describe physical contact between two or more people, usually in a crowded space. Jars, ELBOWS, BUMPS, shoves, and hunches are all forms of jostling, which involve pushing, shoving, or bumping into someone. Jars is the act of pushing someone with a jar or other container, ELBOWS is the act of using one's ELBOWS to push someone, BUMPS is the act of bumping into someone, shoves is the act of pushing someone forcefully, and hunches is the act of hunching over someone in order to move them out of the way.