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shoving over

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

Meaning of shove over

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To push over; to push so that it topples.
  2. (colloquial, intransitive) To move aside to make additional room for another person; to scooch or scoot over.
    • […] I stand there over him with my breakfast tray, expecting him to jovially shove over and make room for me on the bench instead of just kind of blinking at me […]2011, Terra Elan McVoy, The Summer of Firsts and Lasts, page 251
    Synonyms:
    shove up

Questions about shoving over

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

Words near shoving over in the dictionary

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

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