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shove off

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shove  (shv)
v. shoved, shov·ing, shoves
v.tr.
1. To push forward or along.
2. To push rudely or roughly. See Synonyms at push.
v.intr.
To push someone or something with force.
n.
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 scfan.]

shover n.

shove off
vb (intr, adverb; often imperative)
1. (Transport / Nautical Terms) to move from the shore in a boat
2. Informal to go away; depart
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.shove off - leave; informal or rude; "shove off!"; "The children shoved along"; "Blow now!"
depart, go away, go - move away from a place into another direction; "Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon"
Translations
? shove off
vt sep (Naut) → vom Ufer abstoßen
vi
(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.
I am laid down in the bottom of the boat, with my saddle-pillow; and we shove off, leaving the ponies to the desolate freedom of the moor.
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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