shove

Meanings

Verb

  • 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.
  • To pass (counterfeit money).
  • Past of shave

Noun

Origin

  • From Middle English schoven, shoven, schouven, from Old English scūfan, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną (compare West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (compare Lithuanian skùbti ‘to hurry’, Polish skubać ‘to pluck’, Albanian humb ‘to lose’).

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