Definitions for shove

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Spelling: [shuhv]

IPA: /ʃʌv/

Shove is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in shove (ehosv).

Definitions for shove

noun

1. an act or instance of shoving.
2. boon3 .

Idioms

1. shove it, Slang: Often Vulgar. (used to express contempt or belligerence): Also, stick it.
2. shove it up your / one's ass, Slang: Vulgar. go to hell: a term of contempt, abuse, disagreement, or the like. Also, stick it up your/one's ass.
3. when / if push comes to shove. push (def 35).

Verb phrases

1. shove off, to push a boat from the shore. Informal. to go away; depart:

verb (used with object)

1. to move along by force from behind; push.
2. to push roughly or rudely; jostle.
3. Slang: Often Vulgar. to go to hell with:

verb (used without object)

1. to push.

Origin of shove

before 900; (v.) Middle English schouven, Old English scūfan; cognate with Dutch schuiven, obsolete German schauben, Old Norse skūfa; akin to Gothic -skiuban; (noun) Middle English scou, deri

Examples for shove

When push comes to shove, the pressure of staving off Ghana, Portugal, and Germany fell on Howard.

The four of them move to the boat, right it, balance the mattress across its bow and shove it towards the water.

He tries to shove his relationship with Amia into a box and that box explodes in his face.

With one shove the zinc-worker made his way through the crowd.

Well, shove in quinine, and keep him quiet, with hot bottles to his feet.

The era of singers telling loser boyfriends to shove off and demanding more from men was over.

This is power politics, I knew, and push would eventually and inevitably come to shove.

He then told me to shove off, which I did without waiting for a second order.

Edward tumbled into the bottom of the boat, gasping, "shove her off!"

For a while, it was kick backwards, then a shove at the safe.