Pusher

Definitions

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. A girl or woman.
   slang
4. A drug dealer.
   colloquial
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).
7. A defensive player who does not attempt to hit winners, instead playing slower shots into the opponent's court.
8. A tolkach.
   historical, informal
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.

Equivalents

12 more languages

العربيةمروّج المخدّرات

Българскитласкач

Ελληνικάβαποράκιπροωθητήςωθητής

Suomipainajapuskijatyöntäjä

Galegocamelo

Bahasa Indonesiapengedar

Italianospacciatorespacciatrice

日本語立ちん坊

Polskipchacz

Svenskaknarklangarelangarepådrivare

Tagalogtulak

Українськанаркодилер

Examples

“‘You should a seed some o' the pushers. Girls o' seventeen painted worse nor any Gerties I'd ever knowed.’”

“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]”

“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”.”

“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, […]”

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