shover
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From shove -er (“agent suffix”).
Noun
[edit]shover (plural shovers)
- Person who shoves; a pusher.
- (now chiefly historical) One who utters counterfeit money.
- 1894, Hiram C. Whitley, In It, page 227:
- One of the gang of shovers arrested with Gurney gave information leading to the arrest of one David Kirkbride.
- 1941 October, “Don't Take Any Wooden Nickles”, in Popular Mechanics Magazine, volume 76, number 4, page 162:
- Unless someone recognizes the money as counterfeit and calls the police quickly, shovers are hard to locate.