To put hurriedly
Used in a Sentence
shoved
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for shoved.
Editorial note
You poke a toe over the wrong line and you're going to get aggressively yelled at, or shoved.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
To put hurriedly
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of shoved gathered in one view.
(transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.
(intransitive) To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for shoved.
verb
To put hurriedly
verb
(transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.
verb
(intransitive) To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
verb
(poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
Example sentences
You poke a toe over the wrong line and you're going to get aggressively yelled at, or shoved.
Pocket is not only piece shoved down user's throats - just one of the most obvious ones.
Apple set up their ecosystem as a slippery slope that shoved everyone into the mud very quickly.
Most of the really old stuff that's a pain to maintain can be shoved in microcode; compilers won't emit those instructions.
Turbinate cautery feels just like having a hot soldering iron shoved way up your nose.
We build the tools to get you shoved out of office next election cycle.
Scoped data can't be shoved into a global hashmap or sent to a random blocked thread, because it's not allowed to escape its scope.
But I don't want the app shoved in my face when I go to the website.
Instead I have to have the Xbox brand shoved in my face at every opportunity?
If you aren't into building larger systems and systems thinking you're going to get commoditized and shoved into a pure developer role with little influence.
The blame needs to be shared (if appropriate), and not shoved around depending on which side we are currently arguing for/against.
These customer pipelines are the real magic - no matter what junk gets shoved down them, nine times out of ten, junk gets paid for.
Quote examples
The "Purists versus Pragmatists" essay romanticizes the release of Mosaic and gives little credit at all to Ted Nelson's ideas, who is shoved aside as a purist crank.
I don't find it very different from having the "Windows" brand shoved in my face with Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center, Windows Internet Explorer (formerly) etc.
But then "building tools to get people shoved out of office next election cycle" is pretty much doomed to be a perpetual rat race, not unlike trying to use a blacklist to catch an ever growing number of malicious ad networks, or keeping up with a reverse engineered implementation of a proprietary protocol from a vendor who has no qualms with constantly breaking API and ABI compatibility to leave you in the dust.
The article smells of hype and seems to justify this long-delayed epic "to out-Lucas Lucas." I'm no film buff, but the cinematography of certain parts of the trailer reminds me of the same second-rate "Lets get a really wide shot of this big computer-generated battle scene" effects-for-the-sake-of-effects schlock that's been shoved down our throats for the past 10 years.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use shoved in a sentence?
You poke a toe over the wrong line and you're going to get aggressively yelled at, or shoved.
What does shoved mean?
To put hurriedly
What part of speech is shoved?
shoved is commonly used as verb.