shove up

phrasal verb

shoved up; shoving up; shoves up

chiefly British, informal

: to move over to make room for someone else

Shove up so that I can sit down, too.

Examples of shove up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Normal setbacks have been waived as well, so these homes are cheek-and-jowl, and shoved up to our property line. —Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025

Oklahoma City, the overwhelming favorite coming into these finals, has been shoved up against a wall by the underdog Pacers. —David Aldridge, New York Times, 20 June 2025

Now he’s lost in a fluster of subway riders shoving up out of the sudden portal. —David Baker, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024

By daytime, black picnic tables flipped upside down were shoved up against the doors, and handles were tied up with rope. —Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2024

Narrowing the frame constricts the storytelling, no matter how many times a Significant Life Moment is shoved up close to the lens for emphasis. —David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

Rhymes for shove up

• buttercup
• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup