pushers

Noun

pusher (plural pushers)

1. Someone or something that pushes.
2. A person employed to push passengers onto trains at busy times, so they can depart on schedule.
3. (slang) A girl or woman.
   • ‘You should a seed some o' the pushers. Girls o' seventeen painted worse nor any Gerties I'd ever knowed.’1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 208
4. (colloquial) A drug dealer.
   • But the pusher don't care / Ah, if you live or if you die / God damn, the pusher / God damn, I say the pusher1968, Hoyt Axton, “The Pusher”, in Steppenwolf, performed by Steppenwolf
5. An aircraft with the propeller behind the fuselage.
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).
   • You have two flights of stairs and no elevator. As you get closer to your due date that will be awkward, and once the baby arrives a pusher would never make it up there. You can hardly carry a fully loaded pram and baby up two flights.2015, Susanne Hampton, Midwife's Baby Bump, →ISBN, page 160

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