pusher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
rail-transport
railways
sports
tennis
transport
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pel-
Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-né-der.
Proto-Italic *pelnōder.
Latin pellō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin -tō
Latin pulsō
Old French poulser
Middle French pousserbor.
Middle English pushen
English push
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English pusher
From push + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: pushers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that pushes.
pos: noun
gloss: A person employed to push passengers onto trains at busy times, so they can depart on schedule.
pos: noun
gloss: A girl or woman.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: ‘You should a seed some o' the pushers. Girls o' seventeen painted worse nor any Gerties I'd ever knowed.’
gloss: A drug dealer.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: But the pusher don't care / Ah, if you live or if you die / God damn, the pusher / God damn, I say the pusher
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]
gloss: An aircraft with the propeller behind the fuselage.
pos: noun
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Two of the participants even decided to purchase a carrier instead of a pusher as they wanted to “permanently hold their baby”.
gloss: A defensive player who does not attempt to hit winners, instead playing slower shots into the opponent's court.
pos: noun
gloss: A tolkach.
pos: noun
tags: historical
informal
examples: 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.
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, […]
gloss: Synonym of banker (“type of railway locomotive”).
pos: noun
gloss: A device in a coke oven for levelling the coal, traditionally operated by a pusherman.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of toolpusher.
pos: noun
Related words: tractor
Derived words: 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
sharepusher
stick pusher
symbol pusher
toolpusher
tool-pusher
woodpusher
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