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UK
/ʃˈʌv/
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[ US /ˈʃəv/ ]
[ US /ˈʃəv/ ]
VERB
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come into rough contact with while moving
The passengers jostled each other in the overcrowded train -
push roughly
the people pushed and shoved to get in line -
press or force
Stuff money into an envelope
She thrust the letter into his hand
NOUN
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the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something)
he gave the door a shove
How To Use shove In A Sentence
- So I cringe when a local newsperson shoves a microphone in the face of some young 95-pound twink (Straight Translation: a twink is a skinny homosexual with a lot of moxie). Max Mutchnick: Where Is My Martin Luther Queen?
- When writing, she is totally absorbed in the book and on one never-to-be-forgotten occasion, her sons returned from school ravenous to find she had shoved a pair of muddy shoes in the oven for their tea! Diana Wynne Jones biography
- It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
- He quickly snatched the collar of Steven's shirt and shoved him hard against the wall.
- Grandma is up about then and is found sweeping up the street in front of the family home picking up the beer cans and shoveling away the cinders left from the fires. OK! Now that I know . . . . . .
- Minutes after they escaped, there was a fire flashover and the whole building went up in flames.
- By the time we had got the boat to the waist, the ship had filled with water, and was going down on her beam-ends: we shoved our boat as quickly as possible from the plank-shear ** A timber around a vessel's hull at deck line. into the water, all hands jumping in her at the same time, and launched off clear of the ship. The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
- Big steamshovels dug up the ore and loaded it onto the cars and brought it into what they called the washer, where it was washed. Oral History Interview with Eula McGill, February 3, 1976. Interview G-0040-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
- Most had fresh bruises, which he himself no doubt had inflicted, and looked to be even easier pushovers than before.
- I ended up walking on the unshovelled areas in order to have a more secure footing.