shove

Plural: shoves

Noun

the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something)
- "he gave the door a shove"
A rough push.
An all-in bet.
A forward movement of packed river-ice.

Verb

Verb Forms: shoved, shoving, shoves

To push someone or something roughly.
come into rough contact with while moving
push roughly
- "the people pushed and shoved to get in line"
press or force
To push, especially roughly or with force.
To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
To make an all-in bet.
To pass (counterfeit money).
To put hurriedly
simple past of shave

Examples

He tried to SHOVE a few extra letters into his word, but it wasn’t valid.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English schoven, shoven, schouven, from Old English sċūfan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-.
See also West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva; also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).

Synonyms

jostle, squeeze, stuff, thrust

Scrabble Score: 11

shove: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
shove: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
shove: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

shove: valid Words With Friends Word