shove over

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shove over

verb shoves over · shoving over · shoved over

  1. transitive To push over; to push so that it topples.
  2. colloquial, intransitive To move aside to make additional room for another person; to scooch or scoot over. […] I stand there over him with my breakfast tray, expecting him to jovially shove over and make room for me on the bench instead of just kind of blinking at me […]

    Similar: shove up

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@misc{shove_over_2026,
  title = {shove over},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shove%20over},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}