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Meanings of shove along in English

Leave; informal or rude.

        Usage of shove along in English
        1
        The one I shove along by hand is enough for me.
        Daddy Takes Us to the Garden / The Daddy Series for Little Folks
        2
        But as the thing is all over, suppose we shove along, suggested Maurice.
        The House Boat Boys; Or, Drifting Down to the Sunny South
        3
        Let's get out the sails and shove along like gentlemen.
        A Rogue by Compulsion: An Affair of the Secret Service
        4
        He gave King a shove along the path in the general direction of the mullah.
        King--of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure
        5
        Now we'll shove along down and round the trenches.
        Action Front
        6
        Tell me, and, if you don't mind, shove along.
        The Far Horizon
        7
        The unpack- shove along a conveyor-repack process is responsible for most of the slowdown in security lanes, but it's also necessary.
        Wired
        8
        We'll give you two or three clear days to see how the land lies and shove along with your work.
        A Rogue by Compulsion: An Affair of the Secret Service
        9
        Best shove along-shovealong.
        Stories by English Authors: The Sea
        10
        However, we'll shove along.
        The Vanished Messenger
        11
        I own I am a trifle jumpy-onlythe weather-butI need humouring, so shove along, there's a good dear, she said.
        The Far Horizon
        12
        So I just took a look, and shoved along, straight for town.
        The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
        13
        There's nothing like being shoved along when you don't want to go.
        The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign
        14
        Well, she stopped to get that game-bag before she shoved along again!
        The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
        15
        As Gannon was shoved along the building's reeking corridors, he found his voice.
        The panic zone
        16
        Gasping, she was shoved along through the doorway and into a scene of confusion.
        The Nine-Tenths
        This collocation consists of:
        Shove along through the time
        Shove along across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common