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Meaning of shove over | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To push over; to push so that it topples.
    transitive
  2. To move aside to make additional room for another person; to scooch or scoot over.
    colloquial, intransitive

Examples

“[…] 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 […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

shove something down someone's throat shove the queer shove up shoved shoved about shoved around

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