heave-ho, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

heave-ho n.

also heave, heavus

[naut. jargon heave-ho!, a sailor’s cry when hauling on the anchor cable, pulling in sails and performing similar strenuous tasks. In this case the task was that of the bouncer n.¹ (10), who grasped his victim by the scruff of the neck and the seat of the trousers and tossed him through the saloon door]

rejection, ejection; often as the old heave-ho.

1938		D. Runyon ‘For a Pal’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 570: A couple of big guys [...] give them the old heave-ho out of the joint.
1939		R. Chandler ‘Trouble Is My Business’ in Spanish Blood (1946) 212: Should I give him the heave, sir?
1944		D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 107: Red Nose Regan [...] gets the heave-ho from Nathan Detroit. [Ibid.] 146: Joe Gloze gives him the heavus from his job in the Canary club.
1953		Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 188: Buck give Helen the heave.
1959		W. Brown Teen-Age Mafia 16: Who don’t you give the dope the heave-ho, and you and me do the town?
1960		Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 96: I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho.
1975		L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 101: I had to give the heave-ho to Miss Farfadetto.
1982		P. Bailey An Eng. Madam 79: I gave the girls the heave-ho and got myself shot of all the flats.
1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 141: The first thing she asked him was whether he’d given Mona the old heave-ho.
1996		H. Roth From Bondage 379: After his wife gave him the heave-ho.
1996		J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 255: [O]ne of the zillion occasions he looked like getting the heave-ho from his Darlo boarding house.
2005		J. Stahl I, Fatty 98: When he announced [...] that he wanted $200 a week, Mack gave him the heave-ho.
2007		S. Maloney Sucked In 133: The waitress [...] stared at out empty cups and flicked her towel. We were getting the heave-ho.
2016		T. Robinson Rough Trade [ebook] The bar had been closed for fifteen minutes and the last stragglers were getting the heave-ho.
2017		V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 225: ‘I was a bit pissed off. Nobody likes being given the heave-ho, do they?’.
2022		J. Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 21: ‘They just gon give you the heave-ho amd bum-rush yo ass right back to D Block’.