shove off

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verb (intr, adverb; often imperative)

to move from the shore in a boat

informal to go away; depart

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How to use shove off in a sentence

Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
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A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
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The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
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The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
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Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.
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A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
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Had he not meant the Fleet to shove in K. must have made some reference to the second Division, surely.
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Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.
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He lifted the other cadet as high as he could and with a shove sent him rolling on the ice beyond.
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In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.
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