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square-pushing en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (dated, uncountable) The act of going out with a girl; flirting, lovemaking.
    • If I said, ‘Ch'est pour la nanny-goat,’ we'd go square-pushing. He didn't care which. I was the one for chasing the girls, he wasn't. 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 34:
    • Squarepushing up against a backdoor. Maul her a bit. Then the next thing on the menu. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 8: Laestrygonians]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 155: