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pusherman en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From pusher + -man.

Meanings

1. (US, slang) A drug dealer.
   • The visitors stepped back, identical expressions of frustration and distress on their faces — they looked like hurting junkies who had discovered the pusherman wasn't where he'd promised to be. 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
   • Well, now if I were the president of this land / You know, I'd declare total war on the pusher man 1968, Hoyt Axton, “The Pusher”, in Steppenwolf, performed by Steppenwolf:
2. A person employed to operate the pusher device of a coke oven.

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