shunt

  • verb 1 slowly push or pull (a railway vehicle or vehicles) so as to make up or remove from a train. 2 push or shove. 3 direct or divert to a less important place or position.

  • noun 1 an act of shunting. 2 Brit. informal a motor accident, especially a collision of vehicles travelling one close behind the other. 3 an electrical conductor joining two points of a circuit.

  — ORIGIN perhaps from SHUN.

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