Pusher

Quick meaning: Pusher is a noun meaning Someone or something that pushes.

Meaning

Someone or something that pushes.

More Meanings

1. A person employed to push passengers onto trains at busy times, so they can depart on schedule.
2. (military slang) A girl or woman.
3. (colloquial) A drug dealer.
4. (aeronautics) An aircraft with the propeller behind the fuselage.
5. (tennis) A defensive player who does not attempt to hit winners, instead playing slower shots into the opponent's court.
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. (historical, informal) A tolkach.

Example Sentences

‘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

Two of the participants even decided to purchase a carrier instead of a pusher as they wanted to “permanently hold their baby”.

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]

Word Forms

• pushers

Synonyms for pusher

Depending on context, synonyms include banker, toolpusher, pram, peddler, stroller, perambulator.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include thruster, peddler, perambulator, stroller, pushchair, pram.

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