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Shover   /ʃˈəvər/   Listen
Shover

noun
1.
Someone who pushes.  Synonym: pusher.






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"Shover" Quotes from Famous Books



... into the wide sweep in front of the house, and wheel round it, and draw up at the foot of the hall-door steps. It looked like the car he had hired, he knew the shover's face, but there was someone in it. He saw, with pleasure, that it was Barty who was in the car. Good old Barty, come over early to buck him up a bit. Larry sprang to the door, and as he opened it, Barty was coming up the steps. He stood still on the top step. ...
— Mount Music • E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross

... progress, and make a touchdown in his enterprise, and he will kick a commercial or professional goal, over the heads of all competitors. Life is only a football game, after all. Every man in business who is worth his salt is a pusher, a shover, a tackier, a punter, or half-back, and the unsuccessful ones are the ones who carry the water to bring the business players to, when they become overheated, and do the yelling and hurrahing when the pushing business man in the football game of life makes a ...
— Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy - 1899 • George W. Peck

... tin-horn shell-shover, you cough up where Overland Red is or there'll be somethin' doin'. You doped that booze yesterday, but you can't throw ...
— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs



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