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Pencil pusher

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who does routine office work; someone involved mainly in paperwork. derogatory, informal, often

    "“[…] I don't have her creative genius or her version. I'm a numbers man, like my father. A pencil pusher, as Amanda said.” With no balls, he added silently."

  2. 2
    a clerk who does boring paperwork wordnet

Etymology

US origin, 1881.

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