shove over

English

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To push over; to push so that it topples.
2. (intransitive, colloquial) To move aside to make additional room for another person; to scooch or scoot over.
   • 2011, Terra Elan McVoy, The Summer of Firsts and Lasts, page 251:

     […] 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 […]