This is a recent cockney rhyming slang word for Nick - which is in itself slang for police station or prison cell. ie SHOVEL and PICK (nick). A police officer might say "You're nicked" when arresting someone.
Where's Arthur ? He's in the shovel.
by clubcar November 27, 2009
Get the Shovelmug. noun
a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of their spade shaped heads.
"shovels who think the world revolves around them and their not so pretty heads"
a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of their spade shaped heads.
"shovels who think the world revolves around them and their not so pretty heads"
by Lozzy McSavage April 18, 2017
Get the Shovelmug. by Shard November 13, 2005
Get the shovelmug. by (D) own with globalism September 8, 2004
Get the shovelmug. by DJM February 25, 2004
Get the shovelmug. "The text at the top reads "Werewolf of Soviet Union" ("Shovel")."
Russian criminal tatoo encyclopedia. Volume III. UK.
Russian criminal tatoo encyclopedia. Volume III. UK.
by Bitzi September 25, 2010
Get the Shovelmug. by Princess Zeffie March 21, 2010
Get the shovelmug.