shoving
Pushing someone roughly
Shoving is pushing someone or something roughly or forcefully.
The word implies aggression or urgency—you shove your way through a crowd, shove someone aside, or shove belongings into a bag when you're in a hurry.
Stop shoving!
She was shoving clothes into her suitcase.
physical
Pushing with force
- jostlingPushing and bumping others
- elbowingPushing with bent arm
- bumpingLight repeated collision
- nudgingLight push to prompt
ramming · bulldozing · shouldering · barging · forcing · heaving · propelling · displacing
thrusting
Pushing with force
nudging · ramming · bulldozing · shouldering · barging · forcing · heaving · propelling · displacing · manhandling
jostling
Pushing and bumping others
- elbowingPushing with bent arm
- bustlingFull of energetic activity
- crowdingExcessive gathering in limited space
pressing · squeezing · crush · throng · scrum · melee · scramble · stampede · surge · swarming
- crowd behaviorcheering, chanting, booing, clapping, applause
- hostile behaviorsattacking, bullying, fighting, harassing, hitting
- misconductmisconduct, bullying, stealing, vandalism, cheating
- shovingjostling, elbowing, shouldering, nudging, bumping
- dirty playcheap shot, cheap shots, dirty play, foul play, late hit
- mosh pitsmoshing, mosh pit, mosher, circle pit, slam dancing
- pushing and shovingForceful bodily contact
- shoving something down someone's throatForcing beliefs on others
- shoving matchPhysical confrontation involving pushing
- shoving it up your assObscene rejection phrase