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shove in the mouth

shove in the mouth noun: a glass of spirits drunk quickly in one go.

Noun

shove in the mouth (plural shoves in the mouth)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A glass of spirits drunk quickly in one go.
    • Then he's the most comfortable ghost I ever heard of; for Theodore and I saw him not a week ago taking a shove in the mouth at old Mother Murly's in St. Martin's Lane, with two or three underlings of the gallery about him […]Noctes Ambrosianae (volume 3, page 334)

Forms of shove in the mouth

pluralshoves in the mouth

Questions about shove in the mouth

What does shove in the mouth mean?
Shove in the mouth means a glass of spirits drunk quickly in one go.
What part of speech is shove in the mouth?
Shove in the mouth is a noun.
What is the plural of shove in the mouth?
The plural of shove in the mouth is shoves in the mouth.

Words near shove in the mouth in the dictionary

  1. shove about
  2. shove around
  3. shove down
  4. shove ha'penny
  5. shove halfpenny
  6. shove in the mouth
  7. shove it
  8. shove it up your ass
  9. shove knife
  10. shove off
  11. shove on

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