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shove the queer en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (dated, slang) To pass counterfeit money.
    • Then, Old Hugo came near a bad slip-up; though he was only one of the gipsies. He was caught ‘shoving the queer’ in Newark and New York. 1867, Orpheus C. Kerr [pseudonym; Robert Henry Newell], “The Miller and His Men”, in Avery Glibun; or, Between Two Fires. A Romance, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Carleton & Co., publishers; London: S[ampson] Low, Son, & Co., →OCLC, page 166, column 2:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
shoving the queer Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
shoves the queer Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
shoved the queer Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
shoved the queer Tense=Past lexicographic