accosting

verb
  1. 1

    To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.

  2. 2

    To join side to side; to border.

  3. 3

    (by extension) To sail along the coast or side of.

  4. 4

    To approach; to come up to.

  5. 5

    To speak to first; to address; to greet.

  6. 6

    To adjoin; to lie alongside.

  7. 7

    To assault.

  8. 8

    To solicit sexually.

noun
  1. 1

    The act of physically confronting a person.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accost, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accosting