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单词 to shove queer
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to shove (the) queer
a. To pass (counterfeit money); also to shove (the) queer. Now Obsolete or rare.
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society > trade and finance > money > circulation of money > put into circulation [verb (transitive)] > pass counterfeits
to give (one) the slip1567
output1576
to nail up for a slip1594
spring1686
smash1801
shove1859
drop1938
1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 79 Shove queer, pass counterfeit money.
1859 [implied in: National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 14 May 4/3 A ‘shover’ named Flynn,..obtained a quantity of ‘queer’ and went with it to Mrs. Beemer's house and left it on her table. (at shover n.1 b)].
1873 G. W. Perrie Buckskin Mose ii. 36 If I had been detected in ‘shoving the queer’,..they wouldn't have cared one red cent.
1885 Leland Brand-new Ballads (ed. 2) 35 The one [note] I shoved was never worth a continental dam.
1915 A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear ii. ii. 189 This man Pinto helped me to shove the queer... It means to pass the dollars out into circulation.
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