shove
IPA: ʃˈʌv
noun
- A rough push.
- (poker slang) An all-in bet.
- A forward movement of packed river-ice.
verb
- (transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.
- (intransitive) To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
- (poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
- (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).
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Examples of "shove" in Sentences
- Push and shove the remainder to suit.
- Shove the blade into the statues heart.
- He shoves and I light in the ditch by the road.
- I push and shove the remainder towards the door.
- Haynes grew tired of the charade and shoved Heenan.
- Don't suddenly shove in the dimensions of the building.
- He shoves the cops out of the way and pounds downstairs.
- I'm asking that we shove it to the bottom of the article.
- What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favorite album?
- I thought we got off to a good start, but when push came to shove they were hungrier.
- If doing X (or not doing X) will result in death or a disaster, a shove is appropriate.
- Garza says the message would be, "Shove it," as in shove it down the throats of the hitters.
- The "train" contained a super-chilled magnet and it was propelled by a shove from the demo-guy.
- When considering whether a nudge or shove is appropriate, it would seem a more basic question needs to be addressed.
- He turned up at that moment, and frankly gloated over the success of what he called shove the seventh, and twist the first.
- A child stands before the ball, and then a park guide gives it a shove from a specific angle, so that it comes careering back at the child's face only to stop just in front of it.
- This kind of violence has always been instigated with a hard shove from the economic royalists, who would rather have the lower classes killing each other on the courthouse lawns rather than going inside the courthouses to challenge the structural inequalities they find so profitable.
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