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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shove
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
▪ But Gazzer felt himself being shoved off a cliff into unconsciousness.
▪ Slowly, as fast as they could, the Macleans shoved off for home.
▪ Assert yourself and tell him to shove off, or just ignore him and put the phone down.
■ NOUN
hand
▪ Hank made a vulgar sound of distaste, shoved his hands in his pockets and continued on his way.
▪ But the boy shoved hands in his jacket and looked around him while Paul changed his shoes.
▪ Next moment a large piece of kitchen roll had been shoved into her hand.
▪ I shoved my hands against my ears.
▪ I shoved a hand into a pocket and pulled out a ball and placed it on his outstretched palm.
▪ In my haste I had shoved the wrong hand into the wrong pocket and pulled out the wrong ball!
▪ Cheswick shoves his hand higher and glares around.
throat
▪ But my brokers were complaining that I was shoving them down their throats.
▪ They sit still as cameras are shoved down their throats.
way
▪ So Gloria had shoved it out of the way under the bed.
▪ Tony shoved his way through the crowd.
▪ A white giant in a black T-shirt shoves his way to the bar.
▪ He was shoving me all the way down.
▪ It was all full up and in the end I just sort of shoved my way in at the end beside some one.
▪ Fights broke out between pupils trying to shove their way to the front.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
force/ram/shove sth down sb's throat
▪ But my brokers were complaining that I was shoving them down their throats.
▪ His teeth were even and white, and Bernice wanted to ram them down his throat.
▪ Jess felt like ramming it down his throat.
▪ The agents poured pepper sauce down their nostrils, or forced water down their throats.
▪ Torrents of lava would not tumble out to force fire down his throat, torch his tongue.
when/if push comes to shove
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Shove anything you don't want in that sack.
▪ Armed police shoved the protestors aside to make way for the president's car.
▪ He bundled the papers together and shoved them into a drawer.
▪ One of the soldiers shoved her roughly against the wall.
▪ Peter shoved his way through the dense crowd in search of his son.
▪ Robert shoved past the others and made his way to the front of the room.
▪ The children were all pushing and shoving each other.
▪ The officer removed Schultz' handcuffs and shoved him into a cell.
▪ The people moved forward towards the food, pushing and shoving to get there first.
▪ Tom shoved his suitcase under the bed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the entrance he shoved hard.
▪ Danskin swung at him with the pistol, then shoved Converse aside in pursuit.
▪ He shoved a piece of paper at me.
▪ I got mad, because they were so greedy, and tried to shove them away from the chair.
▪ Not one player shoved an official into the azaleas.
▪ The policemen exchanged glances; then he pushing and shoving began: You first.
▪ XTree hopes this move will shove the company into the big league.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
give
▪ Then she gauged distances and gave the drum a shove.
▪ Luck would give him a gentle shove in the right direction.
▪ But she did give him a hefty shove and he nearly fell.
▪ She stopped and some one gave her a little shove onward.
▪ I nodded to Keith and gave Thorpey a shove.
▪ I gave her a good shove, and she sprawled into the muddy waters.
▪ The notary gave Broussac a vigorous shove which sent my companion sprawling into the open sewer.
▪ Rawlins gave him a shove to make room; he turned and snarled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both the transmission controls are heavy, and the all-disc brakes need a hefty shove despite their servo.
▪ But she did give him a hefty shove and he nearly fell.
▪ Giving her a final shove, he pushed her inside.
▪ Luck would give him a gentle shove in the right direction.
▪ Rekindled and re-leased with a shove, the chandelier began to swing again, describing a larger arc this time.
▪ She stood her ground and got an almighty shove from Vassily, who smiled at me apologetically as he delivered the blow.
▪ When the riot had subsided I received affectionate hugs powerful enough to knacker horses and friendly shoves that toppled me over.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shove

Shove \Shove\, v. i.

  1. To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling.

  2. To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off.

    He grasped the oar, eceived his guests on board, and shoved from shore.
    --Garth.

Shove

Shove \Shove\, n. The act of shoving; a forcible push.

I rested . . . and then gave the boat another shove.
--Swift.

Syn: See Thrust.

Shove

Shove \Shove\, obs. p. p. of Shove.
--Chaucer.

Shove

Shove \Shove\ (sh[u^]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shoved (sh[u^]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Shoving.] [OE. shoven, AS. scofian, fr. sc[=u]fan; akin to OFries. sk[=u]va, D. schuiven, G. schieben, OHG. scioban, Icel. sk[=u]fa, sk[=y]fa, Sw. skuffa, Dan. skuffe, Goth. afskiuban to put away, cast away; cf. Skr. kshubh to become agitated, to quake, Lith. skubrus quick, skubinti to hasten. [root]160. Cf. Sheaf a bundle of stalks, Scoop, Scuffle.]

  1. To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor.

  2. To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle.

    And shove away the worthy bidden guest.
    --Milton.

    He used to shove and elbow his fellow servants.
    --Arbuthnot.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shove

Old English scufan "push away, thrust, push with violence" (class II strong verb; past tense sceaf, past participle scoven), from Proto-Germanic *skeub-, *skub- (cognates: Old Norse skufa, Old Frisian skuva, Dutch schuiven, Old High German scioban, German schieben "to push, thrust," Gothic af-skiuban), from PIE root *skeubh- "to shove" (cognates: scuffle, shuffle, shovel; likely cognates outside Germanic include Lithuanian skubti "to make haste," skubinti "to hasten"). Related: Shoved; shoving.\n

\nReplaced by push in all but colloquial and nautical usage. Shove off "leave" (1844) is from boating. Shove the queer (1859) was an old expression for "to counterfeit money." Shove it had an earlier sense of "depart" before it became a rude synonym for stick it (by 1941) with implied destination.

shove

c.1300; see shove (v.).

Wiktionary
shove

n. 1 A rough push. 2 (context poker slang English) An all-in bet. vb. To push, especially roughly or with force.

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WordNet
shove

n. the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something); "he gave the door a shove"

shove

  1. v. come into rough contact with while moving; "The passengers jostled each other in the overcrowded train" [syn: jostle]

  2. push roughly; "the people pushed and shoved to get in line"

  3. press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand" [syn: thrust, stuff, squeeze]

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Wikipedia
Shove

Shove may refer to:

  • Fredegond Shove (1889–1949), English poet
  • Gerald Shove (1887–1947), British economist
  • Lawrence Shove (flourished 1960s/1970s), English wildlife sound recordist
  • Ralph Shove (1889–1966), British County Court judge, rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics
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Usage examples of "shove".

He shoved his plate of food aside as if it were suddenly annoying him.

She rammed her shoulder into it without giving Jadrek a chance to see who was on the other side of it, and shoved it open before the Archivist had time to react.

With the second Uzi held before her in both hands, she sat on the edge of the arroyo and shoved off into the slide that Chris had already used.

The Archpriest Zothnes was there, sitting next to Sarrask, with the Chancellor of Sask shoved down one place to make room for him, which shows you who rules in Sask now.

Mister Gosling, and kept making quick, pushing movements with his hands behind his back, to tell Barnacle to shove off up the ladder.

Barr a hard shove which deposited him forcibly in a chair, because the Barr grunt was loud and surprised.

Head Saloon, shoving through the batwing door as she had done in innumerable places and towns throughout the west.

One bright afternoon, a gig, gaily bedizened with streamers, was observed to shove off from the side of one of the French frigates, and pull directly for our gangway.

The mortal women heard the quick footsteps behind them, felt the ice-cold touch as Bento shoved through them in his haste to go.

Melbras shoved a chair against the door and bent to recover the bowstring he had let fall.

Instead of smooth, almost branchless trunks, they had rough, hairy bark and thick, flattened branches that shoved out from the main trunk in every direction.

Larssen savagely shoved him away while trying to raise the shotgun, but Brast was all over him again, sobbing, clutching at him like a drowning man.

I shoved tony carreras violently aside and tried to reach bullen, to strike down his gun hand, but I was still far too late, a lifetime too late.

I honestly told my visitors to shove off, but Burnside waxed eloquent.

The guy was in the sloppy baggy pants a lot of kids were favoring at the moment, a huge T-shirt, the inevitable baseball cap on backward: a tall kid, maybe seventeen, eighteen years old, hatchet-faced, with a thin little excuse for a mustache just growing, his hair blond, longish, shoved back under the hat.