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shove the queer

shove the queer verb: to pass counterfeit money.

Verb

shove the queer (third-person singular simple present shoves the queer, present participle shoving the queer, simple past and past participle shoved the queer)

  1. (dated, slang) To pass counterfeit money.
    • Then, Old Hugo came near a bad slip-up; though he was only one of the gipsies. He was caught ‘shoving the queer’ in Newark and New York.1867, Orpheus C. Kerr [pseudonym; Robert Henry Newell], “The Miller and His Men”, in Avery Glibun; or, Between Two Fires. A Romance, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Carleton & Co., publishers; London...

Forms of shove the queer

third-person singular presentshoves the queer
present participleshoving the queer
past participleshoved the queer
pastshoved the queer

Questions about shove the queer

What does shove the queer mean?
Shove the queer means to pass counterfeit money.
What part of speech is shove the queer?
Shove the queer is a verb.
What is the past tense of shove the queer?
The past tense of shove the queer is shoved the queer.

Words near shove the queer in the dictionary

  1. shove knife
  2. shove off
  3. shove on
  4. shove over
  5. shove something down someone's throat
  6. shove the queer
  7. shove up
  8. shove-it
  9. shove-its
  10. shoveboard
  11. shoved

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