shove

From Middle English schoven, shoven, schouven, from Old English scūfan, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną (compare West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva), from Proto-Indo-European *skeubʰ- (compare Lithuanian skùbti ‘to hurry’, Polish skubać ‘to pluck’, Albanian humb ‘to lose’).

• enPR: shŭv, IPA^(key): /ʃʌv/
• Rhymes: -ʌv

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

1. To push, especially roughly or with force.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 12, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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 all

   • Thomas Malory

     The ship was anon shoven in the sea.

2. To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
   • Garth

     He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.

3. (poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
4. (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).

shove (plural shoves)

1. A rough push.
   • Jonathan Swift

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

2. (poker slang) An all-in bet.

• ice shove
• when push comes to shove

• hoves