SHOULDER IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shoulder in mean? 

• SHOULDER IN (verb)
  The verb SHOULDER IN has 1 sense:

1. push one's way in with one's shoulders

  Familiarity information: SHOULDER IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOULDER IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Push one's way in with one's shoulders

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "shoulder in" is one way to...):

jostle; shove (come into rough contact with while moving)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

These once aboard, the ship set her broad mainsail, purple in color, and with a golden St. Christopher bearing Christ upon his shoulder in the centre of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“My woman, my one small woman,” I said, my free hand petting her shoulder in the way all lovers know though never learn in school.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She put her arms round my neck, and laughed, and called herself by her favourite name of a goose, and hid her face on my shoulder in such a profusion of curls that it was quite a task to clear them away and see it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She sank her fangs into her mate's shoulder in reproof; and he, frightened, unaware of what constituted this new onslaught, struck back ferociously and in still greater fright, ripping down the side of the she-wolf's muzzle.

(White Fang, by Jack London)