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shove
1[shuhv]
verb (used with object)
to move along by force from behind; push.
Could you help me shove this table back to where it was?
to push roughly or rudely; jostle.
Hey, quit shoving us—you can wait your turn like everyone else.
Slang: Often Vulgar.to go to hell with.
Voters are telling Congress to shove its new tax plan.
verb (used without object)
to push.
OK, all hands on the back of this crate, and on the count of three, shove!
Baseball.to pitch with exceptional focus and effectiveness.
This young closer is spoiling us—we assume he’ll walk out to the mound and shove, and that’s exactly what he does.
noun
an act or instance of shoving.
I gave it a couple of good shoves, but it barely budged.
verb phrase
to push a boat from the shore.
It’s been fun on the beach, but we’d better shove off before the tide goes out any more and grounds our propeller.
Informalto go away; depart.
I think I'll be shoving off now.
shove
2[shohv]
noun
boon.
shove
/ ʃʌ /
verb
to give a thrust or push to (a person or thing)
(tr) to give a violent push to; jostle
(intr) to push one's way roughly
informal(tr) to put (something) somewhere, esp hurriedly or carelessly
shove it in the bin
noun
the act or an instance of shoving
Other 51Թ Forms
- shover noun
- unshoved adjective
- ˈDZ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of shove1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of shove1
Idioms and Phrases
shove it, (used to express contempt or belligerence): Also stick it
I told them to take the job and shove it.
when / if push comes to shove. push.
shove it up your / one's ass, go to hell: a term of contempt, abuse, disagreement, or the like. Also stick it up yourone's ass
Example Sentences
Journalists have been shot with less-lethal police rounds, tear-gassed, shoved and detained while chronicling the ongoing civil unrest and military intervention in Los Angeles.
One day, he woke up in a hospital bed with a tube shoved down his throat.
I understand now why zucchini was being shoved down my throat shortly after my mother’s first harvest.
“They just shoved and cuffed a sitting U.S. senator. How could you say you did not know who he was?”
“I’m Senator Alex Padilla,” he said, as one agent grabbed his jacket and shoved him backward on the chest and arm.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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