shove

Etymology 1

From Middle English schoven, shoven, schouven, from Old English scūfan, 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.'

verb

1. (transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.
   So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 12, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
2. (intransitive) To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
   He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore. 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary
3. (poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
4. (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).

noun

1. A rough push.
2. (poker slang) An all-in bet.
3. A forward movement of packed river-ice.

Etymology 2

verb

1. (obsolete) simple past of shave