shove in the mouth

noun

A glass of spirits drunk quickly in one go.

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Meanings

nounshove in the mouth (plural shoves in the mouth)

plural shoves in the mouth

  1. UKobsoleteslangA glass of spirits drunk quickly in one go.

    Then he's the most comfortable ghost I ever heard of; for Theodore and I saw him not a week ago taking a shove in the mouth at old Mother Murly's in St. Martin's Lane, with two or three underlings of the gallery about him […]

    Noctes Ambrosianae (volume 3, page 334)
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