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Pusher
Definitions
- 1 Someone or something that pushes.
- 2 a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around wordnet
- 3 A person employed to push passengers onto trains at busy times, so they can depart on schedule.
- 4 a sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes wordnet
- 5 A girl or woman. slang
"‘You should a seed some o' the pushers. Girls o' seventeen painted worse nor any Gerties I'd ever knowed.’"
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- 6 someone who pushes wordnet
- 7 A drug dealer. colloquial
"But the pusher don't care / Ah, if you live or if you die / God damn, the pusher / God damn, I say the pusher"
- 8 an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs wordnet
- 9 An aircraft with the propeller behind the fuselage.
- 10 one who intrudes or pushes themself forward wordnet
- 11 A device that one pushes in order to transport a baby while on foot, such as a stroller or pram (as opposed to a carrier such as a front or back pack).
"You have two flights of stairs and no elevator. As you get closer to your due date that will be awkward, and once the baby arrives a pusher would never make it up there. You can hardly carry a fully loaded pram and baby up two flights."
- 12 A defensive player who does not attempt to hit winners, instead playing slower shots into the opponent's court.
- 13 A tolkach. historical, informal
"Time-and-motion study meant objective (that is, testable) standards for setting the pace of work so that, when workers complained of speedup, it was now less out of outrage that the foreman was a "pusher" than that the system itself was being violated or manipulated."
- 14 Synonym of banker (“type of railway locomotive”).
- 15 A device in a coke oven for levelling the coal, traditionally operated by a pusherman.
- 16 Synonym of toolpusher.
Etymology
From push + -er.
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