shove off

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shove

(shŭv)

v. shoved, shov·ing, shoves

v.tr.

1. To push quickly, forcefully, or roughly: shoved the chair against the wall. See Synonyms at push.

2. To put (something) roughly in a place: shoved the keys into his pocket.

v.intr.

1. To push someone or something with force.

2. To move forward roughly, often by shoving someone: shoved past the security guard into his seat.

The act of shoving; a push.

Phrasal Verb:

shove off

1. To push (a boat) away from shore in leaving.

2. Informal To leave.

[Middle English shoven, from Old English scūfan.]

shov′er n.

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shove off

vb (intr, adverb; often imperative)

1. (Nautical Terms) to move from the shore in a boat

2. informal to go away; depart

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Verb

shove off - leave; informal or rude; "shove off!"; "The children shoved along"; "Blow now!"

shove along, blow

depart, go away, go - move away from a place into another direction; "Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon"

shove

verb

1. To force to move or advance with or as if with blows or pressure:

drive, propel, push, ram, thrust.

2. To cause to stick out:

poke, push, thrust.

3. To do or achieve by forcing obstacles out of one's way:

press, push, ram.

4. To force one's way into a place or situation:

push.

Informal: muscle.

phrasal verb
shove off

Informal. To move or proceed away from a place:

depart, exit, get away, get off, go, go away, leave, pull out, quit, retire, run (along), withdraw.

Informal: cut out, push off.

Slang: blow, split, take off.

Idioms: hit the road, take leave.

noun

An act or instance of using force so as to propel ahead:

butt, push, thrust.

Translations

w>shove off

vt sep (Naut) → vom Ufer abstoßen

(in boat) → ablegen

(inf: = leave) → abschieben (inf)

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One bright afternoon, a gig, gaily bedizened with streamers, was observed to shove off from the side of one of the French frigates, and pull directly for our gangway.

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Now hurry, and tell Juag to be ready to shove off the moment I reach the boat, or the instant that it becomes apparent that I cannot reach it.

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John Grueby (for John it was) helped him into the boat, and giving her a shove off, which sent her thirty feet into the tide, bade the waterman pull away like a Briton; and walked up again as composedly as if he had just landed.

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