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shove

noun

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verb

  1. push harshly
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ʃʌv/ / /ʃʊv/ / /ʃəʊv/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English schouven, from Old English sċūfan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-. See also West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva; also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).

  1. A rough push.

    I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.

  2. An all-in bet.
  3. A forward movement of packed river-ice.

verb

  1. simple past of shave