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shoves the queer

shoves the queer is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shove the queer.

Meaning of shove the queer

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...

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Shoves the queer is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shove the queer.

Words near shoves the queer in the dictionary

  1. shoves it up your ass
  2. shoves off
  3. shoves on
  4. shoves over
  5. shoves something down someone's throat
  6. shoves the queer
  7. shoves up
  8. shovey
  9. shovin'
  10. shoving
  11. shoving about

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