shovers

They have simply failed to think through how to make people who are often ill-motivated & unqualified work, how much it will cost to employ the shovers around, whether it will be off any use to anyone.

A couple of classy links Alix Mortimer 2010

They were petty pickpockets – shovers and trippers, not street fighters.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

Perhaps there will no longer be a voice of reason among the pushers and the shovers and the shouters and the haters.

Lisa Solod Warren: The End of the World: One Reality Show and Internet Comment At a Time 2009

They were petty pickpockets – shovers and trippers, not street fighters.

Peeking over my shoulder, into my journalings.... 2009

'You won't get anywhere feeling sorry for yourself,' said the Heathrow traveller, and all the other pushers and shovers turned away.

Gridlock Elton, Ben 1991

Counterfeit money, in slang, is called "queer," and those who pass it on the public are called "shovers."

Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After Henry Bascom Smith

He acquired an array of confidence men and hotel beats and queer shovers and bank sneaks and wire tappers and drum snuffers.

Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

The old chess-players 'temple where Diderot loved to watch the matches; where the author of _Gil Blas_ beheld in a vast and brilliantly lighted salon, a score of silent and grave _pousseurs de bois_ (wood-shovers) surrounded by crowds of spectators amid a silence so profound that the movement of the pieces alone could be heard; where Voltaire and D' Alembert were often seen; where Jean Jacques

The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893

Shanghaiist got shoved into overcrowded subways by new professional subway shovers.

DCist Sommer Mathis 2010

Shanghaiist got shoved into overcrowded subways by new professional subway shovers.

Shanghaiist Elaine Chow 2010