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shoving about

shoving about is the present participle and gerund of shove about.

Meaning of shove about

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To bully somebody; to be bossy towards somebody.

Questions about shoving about

What is shoving about the present participle and gerund of?
Shoving about is the present participle and gerund of shove about.

Words near shoving about in the dictionary

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

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