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pushed paper

pushed paper is the simple past and past participle of push paper.

Meaning of push paper

Verb

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

  1. (derogatory, informal) To work as a paper-pusher.

Questions about pushed paper

What is pushed paper the simple past and past participle of?
Pushed paper is the simple past and past participle of push paper.

Words near pushed paper in the dictionary

  1. pushed one's luck
  2. pushed one's way
  3. pushed one's way in
  4. pushed out
  5. pushed over
  6. pushed paper
  7. pushed papers
  8. pushed past
  9. pushed rope
  10. pushed someone's buttons
  11. pushed string uphill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pushed paper (page history and authors); push paper (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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