pusher
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈpʊʃə/
pusher (plural pushers)
- Someone or something that pushes. [from 16th c.]
- A person employed to push passengers onto trains at busy times, so they can depart on schedule.
- (military slang) A girl or woman. [from 20th c.]
- 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, p. 208:
- ‘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 2014, p. 208:
- (colloquial) A drug dealer. [from 20th c.]
- (aeronautics) An aircraft with the propeller behind the fuselage. [from 20th c.]
- 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).
- (tennis) A defensive player who does not attempt to hit winners, instead playing slower shots into the opponent's court.
- Italian: spacciatore, spacciatrice
- Spanish: camello
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