Meaning of push around | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, around.
2. To treat contemptuously and unfairly; to bully
   figuratively, transitive

Examples

“2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/ Yaki have just one natural predator, the reticulated python, but they have many enemies. Land clearers are pushing the monkeys around. Roadbuilders are hemming them in. And outlaw trappers have them running for their lives.”

“Pushing little children with their fully automatics they like to push the weak around.”

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