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Definition of Shove off
1. Verb. Leave; informal or rude. "Blow now!"
Definition of Shove off
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To leave ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shove Off
Literary usage of Shove off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An ecclesiastical history of Ireland, from the first introduction of by John Lanigan (1822)
"To shove off this difficulty, Ware tells us that St. Moling had resigned the see
long before his death. Where he found this information I cannot discover, ..."
2. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"A cutter, for example, is supposed to be lying alongside, properly manned, and
ready to shove off: Up Oars! The crew, with the exception of the bowmen seize ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1866)
"shove off, shove off; now's your time, for the undercurrent is failing her.
Both of them off, as I'm alive; and yet a third boat I could not see. ..."
4. Modern Seamanship by Austin Melvin Knight (1910)
"shove off! The bowmen point the wooden end of the boat-hooks against the side
and shove well clear and a little ahead, the coxswain sheering her off with ..."
5. The Metropolitan (1833)
"O'Brien and I remained in the battery with the armourer, the boat's crew being
ordered down to the boat, to keep her afloat, and ready to shove off at a ..."
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