shove over

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

present singular third person shoves over · participle present shoving over · participle past shoved over · past shoved over

transitiveTo push over; to push so that it topples.
colloquialintransitiveTo move aside to make additional room for another person; to scooch or scoot over.
[…] 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 […]
2011, Terra Elan McVoy, The Summer of Firsts and Lasts, page 251
Synonyms: shove up

verbTo move aside to make additional room for another person; to scooch or scoot over.

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