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pusher en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpʊʃə/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

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-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō 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 *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English pusher From push + -er.

Meanings

  1. Someone or something that pushes.
  2. A person employed to push passengers onto trains at busy times, so they can depart on schedule.
  3. (slang) A girl or woman.
    • ‘You should a seed some o' the pushers. Girls o' seventeen painted worse nor any Gerties I'd ever knowed.’ 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 208:
  4. (colloquial) A drug dealer.
    • But the pusher don't care / Ah, if you live or if you die / God damn, the pusher / God damn, I say the pusher 1968, Hoyt Axton, “The Pusher”, in Steppenwolf, performed by Steppenwolf:
    • 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] 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:
  5. An aircraft with the propeller behind the fuselage.
  6. 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).
    • Two of the participants even decided to purchase a carrier instead of a pusher as they wanted to “permanently hold their baby”. 2017, Simona Vlad, Nicolae Marius Roman, International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology, →ISBN, page 279:
    • 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. 2015, Susanne Hampton, Midwife's Baby Bump, →ISBN, page 160:
  7. A defensive player who does not attempt to hit winners, instead playing slower shots into the opponent's court.
  8. (historical, informal) A tolkach.
    • 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, […] 2017, Michael Rywkin, Soviet Society Today, page 35:
    • 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. 1993, Bertram Silverman, Robert C. Vogt, Murray Yanowitch, Double Shift, page 249:
  9. Synonym of banker (“type of railway locomotive”).
  10. A device in a coke oven for levelling the coal, traditionally operated by a pusherman.
  11. Synonym of toolpusher.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
pushers Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

pushee

Deriveds

pedal pusher · cuticle pusher · tool-pusher · sharepusher · paper-pusher · stick pusher · coin pusher · penny pusher · coal pusher · pill pusher · pixel pusher · drug pusher · woodpusher · pen pusher · button pusher · pusher-thruster · symbol pusher · cookie pusher · toolpusher · cow pusher · pencil pusher · pencil-pusher · pen-pusher · button-pusher

Relateds

tractor

Synonyms

banker · toolpusher

Translations (16)

pt empurrador (that which pushes) · da pusher (drug dealer) · tl tulak (drug dealer) · es camello (drug dealer) · sv langare (drug dealer) · bg наркодилър (drug dealer) · sv knarklangare (drug dealer) · it spacciatrice (drug dealer) · it spacciatore (drug dealer) · el βαποράκι (drug dealer) · bg тласкач (that which pushes) · gl camelo (drug dealer) · mr ढकळणारी (that which pushes) · pt empurradora (that which pushes) · mr ढकळणारा (that which pushes) · el ωθητής (that which pushes)