pusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊʃə/
Forms: form: pushers
Etymology: From push + -er.
Senses: coordinate_terms: pushee
glosses: Someone or something that pushes.
glosses: A person employed to push passengers onto trains at busy times, so they can depart on schedule.
examples: text: ‘You should a seed some o' the pushers. Girls o' seventeen painted worse nor any Gerties I'd ever knowed.’
ref: 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 208:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A girl or woman.
examples: text: But the pusher don't care / Ah, if you live or if you die / God damn, the pusher / God damn, I say the pusher
ref: 1968, Hoyt Axton, “The Pusher”, in Steppenwolf, performed by Steppenwolf:
text: My campaign against drug will not stop until the, until the end of my term. That will be six years from now. Until the last pusher and the last drug lord are – [applause]
ref: 2016 December 16, Rodrigo Duterte, Speech of President Rodrigo Duterte during the Meeting with the Filipino Community in Singapore, The Max Pavilion and Hall 9:
glosses: A drug dealer.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aircraft with the propeller behind the fuselage.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2015, Susanne Hampton, Midwife's Baby Bump, →ISBN, page 160:
text: Two of the participants even decided to purchase a carrier instead of a pusher as they wanted to “permanently hold their baby”.
ref: 2017, Simona Vlad, Nicolae Marius Roman, International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology, →ISBN, page 279:
glosses: 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).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A defensive player who does not attempt to hit winners, instead playing slower shots into the opponent's court.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1993, Bertram Silverman, Robert C. Vogt, Murray Yanowitch, Double Shift, page 249:
text: Large factories use “pushers” who cajole, threaten, wine, dine, and bribe those in whose hands rests the power to allocate needed resources, machinery, raw materials, or spare parts. It is often the only way to cross the bureaucratic thicket, […]
ref: 2017, Michael Rywkin, Soviet Society Today, page 35:
glosses: A tolkach.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of banker (“type of railway locomotive”).
synonyms: word: banker
extra: type of railway locomotive
glosses: A device in a coke oven for levelling the coal, traditionally operated by a pusherman.
Derived terms: button pusher
button-pusher
coal pusher
coin pusher
cookie pusher
cow pusher
drug pusher
paper-pusher
pedal pusher
pencil-pusher
pencil pusher
penny pusher
pen-pusher
pen pusher
pill pusher
pixel pusher
pusher-thruster
stick pusher
symbol pusher
tool-pusher
woodpusher
Related terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: tractor