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shove knife

shove knife noun: a tool used mainly by firefighters for forcible entry, to be inserted between a door and its frame.

shove knife: a tool used mainly by firefighters for forcible entry, to be inserted between a door and its frame
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Noun

shove knife (plural shove knives)

  1. A tool used mainly by firefighters for forcible entry, to be inserted between a door and its frame.

Forms of shove knife

pluralshove knives

Questions about shove knife

What does shove knife mean?
Shove knife means a tool used mainly by firefighters for forcible entry, to be inserted between a door and its frame.
What part of speech is shove knife?
Shove knife is a noun.
What is the plural of shove knife?
The plural of shove knife is shove knives.

Words near shove knife in the dictionary

  1. shove ha'penny
  2. shove halfpenny
  3. shove in the mouth
  4. shove it
  5. shove it up your ass
  6. shove knife
  7. shove off
  8. shove on
  9. shove over
  10. shove something down someone's throat
  11. shove the queer

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