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View synonyms for shove off

shove off

verb

  1. to move from the shore in a boat

  2. informal,  to go away; depart

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Despite being shoved off their own scrum, the ball came out to Cox who managed to offload to Kate Williams who crossed to give the home crowd something to cheer.

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And there’s no punishment for telling the governor to shove off.

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I again leaped to the firebox, and again was shoved off.

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“We know, when push comes to shove, the results of that are 143 faculty getting shoved off a cliff with one vote,” he said.

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All that rain caused scattered, localized mudslides that damaged homes — including one shoved off its foundation — and closed roads.

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