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Etymology

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From Middle English outaschouven, ut-ascufan, from Old English *ūtāscūfan, *ūtāscēofan (to push out), equivalent to out- +‎ shove.

Verb

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outshove (third-person singular simple present outshoves, present participle outshoving, simple past and past participle outshoved)

  1. (transitive) To shove harder or better than; outcompete by shoving
    • 1946, Damon Runyon, Guys and dolls:
      Then the next thing anybody knows, the Yales outshove the Harvards, and now the game is over, and Mr. Phillips Randolph gets up out of his seat, and I hear Mr. Phillips Randolph say like this: []
    • 2013, Millard C Davis, Morning on the Mountain: Adirondack Adventures:
      Thereupon they not only hatch a day or So earlier than the competing egg or eggs bu eventually outshove the rival young for food.

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