pusher Definition
pusher (po̵os̸h′ər)
noun
- a person or thing that pushes
- an airplane with its propeller or propellers mounted behind the engine so that it pushes the aircraft forward
- ☆ Slang a person who sells drugs, esp. narcotics, illegally
pusher* Synonyms
pusher*
n.
Intruder
pest, meddler, interrupter; see intruder.A seller of drugs
dealer, black-market salesman, dope peddler, connection*; see criminal.
pusher Usage Examples
Converse of object
- pedal: The shoes look perfect under a pair of pedal pushers or a pretty, wide skirt.
- use: Team Colors - For team identification, one team shall use white Pushers and the opposing team shall use black Pushers.
- operate: The second example uses a cognate cam with swinging roller follower to operate the pusher of a conveyor take-off mechanism.
Converse of subject
operate: The calendar correction is operated by a small sunken pusher at the 10 position.
Adjective modifier
- square: Very nice proportions and well balanced dial and case with narrow winding crown and flat square pushers.
- buggy: Wheelchair users and buggy pushers may wish to return by the same route, making it into a linear walk.
- small: The calendar correction is operated by a small sunken pusher at the 10 position.
- big: That government was also the big pusher of league tables, and there lay the embarrassment.
- sunken: The calendar correction is operated by a small sunken pusher at the 10 position.
- more: But we know what it really meant in the most deprived areas of our inner cities more drug pushers, and more ruined lives.
Modifies a noun
- propeller: The engines were mounted back-to-back in pairs, with the forward unit driving a tractor airscrew and the aft facing unit a pusher propeller.
- tug: The sad sight of the laid up Hargreaves pusher tugs at Castleford.
- unit: The idea of the mower conversion or pusher unit was conceived in the early 1920s.
Noun used with modifier
- pen: The " front line soldiers " can only do what they can - the rest is up to pen pushers.
- drug: True, Soho does have its problems, most recently with the influx to the area of drug pushers.
- button: All wanted people who could think and who would not just be button pushers.
- paper: The narrator, Adair, is a paper pusher working for the mayor.
- chronograph: The crown at the 3 position sets the date and time, whilst the other two are the chronograph pushers.
- wheelchair: This was probably intended to be used by wheelchair pushers.
Preposition: of
drug: Pedophiles should be treated severely, but then so should pushers of hard drugs.
Browse dictionary entries near pusher
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