shove
Meaning
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- To push, especially roughly or with force.
- To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
- To make an all-in bet.
- (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).
Synonyms
stick in
cram in
stuff in
thrust in
thrust forward
push aside
push against
thrust away
thrust out
dip in
press into
shove away
shoulder in
object to
push along
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃʌv/
Etymology
From Middle English schoven, shoven, schouven, from Old English sċūfan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-. See also West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva; also Lithuanian skùbti ‘to hurry’, Polish skubać ‘to pluck’, Albanian humb ‘to lose.'
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