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Shove off   /ʃəv ɔf/   Listen
Shove off

verb
1.
Leave; informal or rude.  Synonyms: blow, shove along.  "The children shoved along" , "Blow now!"






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"Shove off" Quotes from Famous Books



... the smaller man. "Where'd you get the 'old' at? I've acted like a feeble-minded idiot, I'll admit—bein' imposed on so regular—but that's over and I'm breathin' free. Wait till you shove off in that front end; it 'ain't got the beam and you'll upset. Ha!" He uttered a malicious bark. "You'll drownd!" Mr. Quirk turned indignant eyes upon the visitors. "The idea of HIM callin' ME ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach

... I think. The next thing I knew she came headlong, mouth open, fairly screaming at me; and I turned and jumped clean into the Gray Water. Oh, Scott, it was humiliating to have to swim to the point with all my clothes on, scramble into the canoe, and shove off because a very angry wild creature drove me out of my ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers

... baggage and cattle were all transported over, I sent over the men, and embarked myself in the last canoe; but as one of the soldiers in the other canoe had gone out to purchase something, I made the canoe in which I was shove off, telling the men to come off the moment the man returned. I found it difficult to sit in the canoe so as to balance it, though it contained only three people besides the rower. We had just landed on the East ...
— The Journal Of A Mission To The Interior Of Africa, In The Year 1805 • Mungo Park

... me, I trust," she fondly replied. "Oh, I feel so thankful that faithful Trimble Rogers is keeping tryst. He will hear the soldiers blundering about in time to make Captain Bonnet take heed and shove off." ...
— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine

... crew remaining on board, hastily belayed the clewline at the fife-rail, hauling it just taut enough to hold Bitts, without choking him to death. As the ruffian leaped into the boat, to which he had been assigned, Perth gave the order to shove off, and the runaways pulled with all their might for ...
— Down the Rhine - Young America in Germany • Oliver Optic



Words linked to "Shove off" :   shove along, go away, blow, depart, go



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