shove over

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shove over (third-person singular simple present shoves over, present participle shoving over, simple past and past participle shoved over)

  1. (transitive) To push over; to push so that it topples.
  2. (intransitive, colloquial) To move aside to make additional room for another person; to scooch or scoot over.
    • 2011, Terra Elan McVoy, The Summer of Firsts and Lasts, page 251:
      […] 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 […]
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