Usually means: Push someone or something forcefully.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. shove: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shove: Merriam-Webster
  3. shove: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shove: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shove: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shove: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shove, shove: Wordnik
  8. shove: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shove: Wiktionary
  10. shove: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shove: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shove: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shove: Dictionary.com
  14. shove: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shove: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shove (song), Shove: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shove: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shove: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shove: Rhymezone
  20. shove: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shove: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shove: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shove: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shove: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shove: Legal dictionary

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  1. shove: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SHOVE: Acronym Finder
  2. shove: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shove, shove: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shove: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shove)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
▸ verb:  (poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
▸ verb:  (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).
▸ noun:  A rough push.
▸ noun:  (poker slang) An all-in bet.
▸ noun:  A forward movement of packed river-ice.

Similar:
jostle, squeeze, thrust, stuff, push and shove, shove over, push, outshove, shuffle, crowd, more...

Opposite:
pull

Types:
nudge, jostle, shoulder, elbow, push, more...

Phrases:
Shove It, shove off, shove halfpenny, shove hapenny, shove along, more...

Adjectives:
little, hard, gentle, good, final, violent, mighty, playful, slight, quick, vigorous


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Similar:
jostle, squeeze, thrust, stuff, push and shove, shove over, push, outshove, shuffle, crowd, more...

Opposite:
pull

Types:
nudge, jostle, shoulder, elbow, push, more...

Phrases:
Shove It, shove off, shove halfpenny, shove hapenny, shove along, shove down throat, when push comes to shove, gave the shove, get the shove, gets the shove, getting the shove, give the shove, given the shove, more...

Adjectives:
little, hard, gentle, good, final, violent, mighty, playful, slight, quick, vigorous



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