Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. Aus.) a general excl. of dismissal and rudeness.

[1925		Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer 273: They can take their reserve corps and shove it ten thousand miles up the creek].
1939		E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 75: You know what to do with it [...] just go ahead and shove it.
1941		Baker Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. 71: Stick it!, a contemptuous ejaculation. Also, ‘shove it!’.
1944		H. Brown Walk in Sun 42: ‘It’s a Purple Heart, sarge,’ Rivera said. ‘Shove it,’ Sergeant Hoskins said.
1953		R. Chandler Long Good-Bye 34: ‘We are conducting a routine investigation. That’s all you need to know.’ [...] ‘Shove it, Jack,’ I said.
1959		W. Brown Teen-Age Mafia 104: Shove it, you fat bastard. Just shove it.
1965		C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 313: You take this job; you just take it and shove it.
1968		J. Colebrook Cross of Lassitude 106: Yes, keep cool, princess. And tell the judge hello from me. Tell him to shuv it.
1976		L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 190: Right. ‘The Many Moods of Lou Reed,’ just like Johnny Mathis, and if they don’t like it they can shove it.
1981		J. Sullivan ‘The Second Time Around’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] Shove it Rodney, shove it.
1988		Indianapolis Star (IN) 26 Jan. 31/1: Readers who have expressed the wish that I either shove off or shove it.
2002		‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 267: Refuse to help her! Tell Charisma Donovan to go shove it!