Slap vs Shove - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between slap and shove

is that slap is a blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat while shove is a rough push.

As verbs the difference between slap and shove

is that slap is to give a slap while shove is to push, especially roughly or with force.

As an adverb slap

is exactly, precisely.

slap

English

Noun

(en noun)

A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.

The sound of such a blow.

(slang, uncountable) Makeup, cosmetics.

Usage notes

Especially used of blows to the face (aggressive), buttocks, and hand, frequently as a sign of reproach. Conversely, used of friendly strikes to the back, as a sign of camaraderie.

Hyponyms

* cuff

Derived terms

* bitch-slap * slap in the face * pimp-slap

Verb

(slapp)

To give a slap.

She slapped him in response to the insult.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

Mrs. Flanders rose, slapped her coat this side and that to get the sand off, and picked up her black parasol.

To cause something to strike soundly.

He slapped the reins against the horse's back.

To place, to put carelessly.

We'd better slap some fresh paint on that wall.

Derived terms

* slapper * slap-up

Hyponyms

* cuff

Adverb

(-)

Exactly, precisely

He tossed the file down slap in the middle of the table.

Synonyms

* just * right * slap bang * smack dab

Anagrams

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shove

English

Verb

(shov)

To push, especially roughly or with force.

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To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off .

* Garth

He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.

To make an all-in bet.

(label) To pass (counterfeit money).

Derived terms

* shover * shove off * shove-it * push and shove * shove ha'penny

Noun

(en noun)

A rough push.

* Jonathan Swift

I rested and then gave the boat another shove .

(poker slang) An all-in bet.

Derived terms

* when push comes to shove