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push wood

push wood verb: to play chess.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, slang) To play chess.

Forms of push wood

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

Origin of push wood

From the pushing (moving) of wooden chess pieces on a wooden chessboard.

Questions about push wood

What does push wood mean?
Push wood means to play chess.
What part of speech is push wood?
Push wood is a verb.
What is the past tense of push wood?
The past tense of push wood is pushed wood.

Words near push wood in the dictionary

  1. push up against
  2. push up daisies
  3. push up on
  4. push up the daisies
  5. push water uphill
  6. push wood
  7. push-and-pull
  8. push-back
  9. push-backs
  10. push-bike
  11. push-biked

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