outshove

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verb

To shove harder or better than; outcompete by shoving

OriginMiddle English outaschouven ← Old English *ūtāscūfan →
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Meanings

verboutshove (third-person singular simple present outshoves, present participle outshoving, simple past and past participle outshoved)

present singular third person outshoves · participle present outshoving · participle past outshoved · past outshoved

  1. transitiveTo shove harder or better than; outcompete by shoving

    Thereupon they not only hatch a day or So earlier than the competing egg or eggs bu eventually outshove the rival young for food.

    2013, Millard C Davis, Morning on the Mountain: Adirondack Adventures
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    Then the next thing anybody knows, the Yales outshove the Harvards, and now the game is over, and Mr. Phillips Randolph gets up out of his seat, and I hear Mr. Phillips Randolph say like this: […]

    1946, Damon Runyon, Guys and dolls

Origin

  1. Old English*ūtāscūfan
  2. Middle Englishoutaschouven
  3. Englishoutshove

From Middle English outaschouven, ut-ascufan, from Old English *ūtāscūfan, *ūtāscēofan (“to push out”), equivalent to out- + shove.

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APA

outshove. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outshove

MLA

“outshove.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outshove. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outshove,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outshove.

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