shoving

Verb

shove (third-person singular simple present shoves, present participle shoving, simple past shoved, past participle shoved or (obsolete) shoven)

1. (transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.
   • So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
2. (intransitive) To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
   • He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary
3. (by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
4. (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).
5. To put hurriedly

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