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push it

push it verb: to make an extraordinary or risky effort; to behave in a way which tests the limits; to take chances; to expect too much.

Verb

push it (third-person singular simple present pushes it, present participle pushing it, simple past and past participle pushed it)

  1. (idiomatic) To make an extraordinary or risky effort; to behave in a way which tests the limits; to take chances; to expect too much.
    • You're really pushing it if you expect them to keep putting up with your B.S.
    • We were really pushing it when we kept on driving even though the fuel gauge was near empty.
  2. (dated, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
    • push it real good
    • Salt-n-Pepa's here, and we're in effect
      Want you to push it back
      Cooling by day, then at night, working up a sweat
      C'mon girls, let's go show the guys that we know
      How to become number one in a hot party show
      Now push it
      push it good
      (Ah, push it) push it real good
      (Ah, push it) push it good
      (Ah...1987, Hurby Azor, Ray Davies, “Push It (Salt-n-Pepa song)”performed by Salt-n-Pepa

push it meaning in Bengali

push it in Bengali

একটি অসাধারণ, ঝুঁকিপূর্ণ প্রচেষ্টা করা, ঝুঁকি নেওয়া, খুব বেশি আশা করা, যৌন মিলন করা

Examples of push it in a sentence

  • "No hurry, give me time"—"don't push it"—"wait"—"do nothing"—"the status quo"—all these various phrases expressed Lord Southend's earnest and re-iterated advice."1900, Anthony Hope, chapter 20, in Tristram of Blent:
  • "Sometimes she lets me touch her, just the breasts you see, and that's fine, I don't push it."2010, Andre Dubus, Adultery & Other Choices, →ISBN:

Forms of push it

third-person singular presentpushes it
present participlepushing it
past participlepushed it
pastpushed it

Origin of push it

The slang sense referring to sexual intercourse was inspired by "Push It", a Salt-n-Pepa song of the 1980s. The song is ostensibly only about dancing but clearly also implies sex.

Questions about push it

What does push it mean?
Push it means to make an extraordinary or risky effort; to behave in a way which tests the limits; to take chances; to expect too much.
What is push it in Bengali?
Push it in Bengali is একটি অসাধারণ, ঝুঁকিপূর্ণ প্রচেষ্টা করা, ঝুঁকি নেওয়া. See Push it meaning in Bengali.
How do you use push it in a sentence?
"No hurry, give me time"—"don't push it"—"wait"—"do nothing"—"the status quo"—all these various phrases expressed Lord Southend's earnest and re-iterated advice."
What part of speech is push it?
Push it is a verb.
What is the past tense of push it?
The past tense of push it is pushed it.

Words near push it in the dictionary

  1. push factors
  2. push forward
  3. push in
  4. push ins
  5. push into the long grass
  6. push it
  7. push money
  8. push moraine
  9. push mow
  10. push mowed
  11. push mower

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: push it (page history and authors); push it (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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