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• n  a slight push or shake
• v  to push against gently
  She nudged my elbow when she saw her friend enter the restaurant
• v  push into action by pestering or annoying gently

• Media must nudge the governments to make sure they carry out their commitments in time.
• Allowing investors to keep more?or all?of their dividends will not only nudge them back into the shaky market, proponents argue, but also encourage greater corporate .
• Medicine has not yet been able to nudge upward the biblical allotment of threescore years and ten, and we are already halfway there.

• jog
• poke at
• prod

News & Articles

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• Vibrating Navigators Shake Up Devices
  The day's not too far off that a smartphone, instead of providing on-screen driving directions, could guide someone to her destination with a little nudge. Literally.
  June 14, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News
• How to Keep Dad Healthy
  This Father’s Day nudge your Pop to be healthier.
  June 14, 2013 - BET.com
• US stock market moves higher
  NEW YORK (AP) — A pair of better economic reports helped nudge the U.S. stock market up Thursday afternoon, even as the Japanese market plunged again.
  June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Jonathan Wallace in International Herald Tribune
  At first I thought I stepped out of bounds,Wallace said, "because I was trying to make a play with the time running down. But I did kind of (feel a) nudge when I was trying to turn the corner."
• Kurt Busch in Florida Times-Union
  We didn't just flat-out wreck him,Busch said. "We didn't cut his tire. We didn't drive over him. It was just a nice nudge that we are all used to seeing and appreciating at the short tracks."