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  • noun Plural form of shove.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shove.

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Examples

  • I'm sure that, given time, I'll quit seeing this pretty little nostril screw at all -- but for right now I'm still in [:: shoves nostril towards audience::] "Lookit this cool thing I got on my face!" mode, and I simply can't restrain myself.

    August 9th, 2005 2005

  • They shook out the bits of bark they called the shoves, and then Hadley’s mother would get to work with the hackle, its iron teeth sticking out of the paddle-shaped board as she stroked and cleaned and separated the fibers into tow cloth, which was good for cleaning out rifle barrels and not much else.

    The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976

  • They shook out the bits of bark they called the shoves, and then Hadley’s mother would get to work with the hackle, its iron teeth sticking out of the paddle-shaped board as she stroked and cleaned and separated the fibers into tow cloth, which was good for cleaning out rifle barrels and not much else.

    The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976

  • They shook out the bits of bark they called the shoves, and then Hadley’s mother would get to work with the hackle, its iron teeth sticking out of the paddle-shaped board as she stroked and cleaned and separated the fibers into tow cloth, which was good for cleaning out rifle barrels and not much else.

    The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976

  • Frances has heard her name and shoves Ginger off her.

    Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996

  • Frances has heard her name and shoves Ginger off her.

    Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996

  • Its manufacturer never "shoves" it, but sells it in quantities to small shop keepers, car conductors, and others, at a certain percentage of its face value -- 50 per cent. quite usually; the percentage, however, depends on whether it is well done or not.

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

  • Then he slives up an 'shoves' is 'ead on yer, that cadin'.

    Sons and Lovers 1913

  • Then he slives up an 'shoves' is 'ead on yer, that cadin'.

    Sons and Lovers 1907

  • "Da is jes like apples in a tub -- yo 'shoves 'em under, an' up da pops, bright as eber."

    The Rover Boys In The Mountains Or, A Hunt for Fun and Fortune Edward Stratemeyer 1896

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