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Meaning of shove in the mouth | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

A glass of spirits drunk quickly in one go.

UK, obsolete, slang

Examples

“Then he's the most comfortable ghost I ever heard of; for Theodore and I saw him not a week ago taking a shove in the mouth at old Mother Murly's in St. Martin's Lane, with two or three underlings of the gallery about him […]”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

shove knife shove-it shoveboard Shoved shovegroat Shovel