shove the queer

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shove the queer (third-person singular simple present shoves the queer, present participle shoving the queer, simple past and past participle shoved the queer)

  1. (slang, dated) To pass counterfeit money.
    • 1867, Orpheus C. Kerr [pseudonym; Robert Henry Newell], “The Miller and His Men”, in Avery Glibun; or, Between Two Fires. A Romance, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Carleton & Co., publishers; London: S[ampson] Low, Son, & Co., →OCLC, page 166, column 2:
      Then, Old Hugo came near a bad slip-up; though he was only one of the gipsies. He was caught ‘shoving the queer’ in Newark and New York.