Illustration: In a community hall storeroom, a volunteer pushes a low trolley stacked with folded floor cushions. Its front bumper has just struck a square support pillar. The volunteer’s elbows bend abruptly, their body checks forward, and the uppermost cushion tips over the front of the stack.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

突つき当あたる

tsukiataru

to bump into, to collide with

Example sentences

  1. 急いそいだあまり私わたしはだれか人ひとに突つき当あたった。

    In my hurry I bumped into someone.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. そこへ越後えちごの縮緬商人新助ちりめんしょうにんしんすけが源左衛門げんざえもんに誤あやまって突つき当あたる。

    Then Shinsuke, a merchant dealing with chirimen crepe, hits Genzaemon accidentally.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 尾張藩家臣、朋飼佐平治は路上で町人と突き当たった。

    Saheiji TOMOKAI, a vassal of Owari domain bumped into a townsman on the street.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 突当

  • 突stab; protrudingOnトツ・カKunつく
  • 当hit; appropriateOnトウKunあたる・あたり・あてる

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