To carry out work that will have to be repeated/undone at a later date.
This term originated in the mining industry where workers would unintentionally block their entrance and therefore have to move the soil for a second time in order to exit.
This term originated in the mining industry where workers would unintentionally block their entrance and therefore have to move the soil for a second time in order to exit.
Example 1:
Don't leave that there or you will have to double shovel it.
Example 2:
I had to double shovel that because I didn't think it through.
Don't leave that there or you will have to double shovel it.
Example 2:
I had to double shovel that because I didn't think it through.
by TheSandgrouse March 18, 2019

A: Bro last night was fucking mad
B: What happened?
A: I was shoveling snow for the first time and I almost had a heart attack
B: Bro you're a fucking legend!!!!
B: What happened?
A: I was shoveling snow for the first time and I almost had a heart attack
B: Bro you're a fucking legend!!!!
by TheMonoBro6969 May 9, 2018

The last shot you'll ever need, under The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. May contain lead and/or copper, will leaves trace GSR at the injection site.
Dude, your dad turned 70? Might as well sign him up for his shovel-ready flu shot now...
Bro, that shovel-ready flu shot is KILLER!
Bro, that shovel-ready flu shot is KILLER!
by geekthang November 2, 2012

When you're giving cunilingous and lick from bootie up too the CLIT (while tonuge is in shovel shape) "creator of the term "shovel tongue" Will
by Alexander Payne July 22, 2017

Work which achieves no useful purpose but is mandated as some kind of political requirement in order to achieve some actual objective.
by _cjd September 5, 2017

“I grab my shovel” “I grab my shovel” “I grab my shovel” Taking on a gang slang that’s on a gang bang here right on me gotta pick on someone else! I know that’s here so I know that I wade through sh*t! He’s a loser he’s a loser she said!
by Nascarfan2007 January 15, 2023

by Armesocke May 15, 2020
