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noun

Pusher n.

One who, or that which, pushes.

One who sells illegal drugs, esp. one who tries to convince others to use such drugs.

(Railroad) A second engine attached to the rear of a train to provide extra power for climbing steep grades.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pusher" Quotes from Famous Books

... they spoke to each other in tense approving whispers. Yet of the chosen few who, in the words of Mr. Carleton, "were determined to get those deserts that rightly and truly belonged to them," less than half a dozen combined even a modicum of personal appearance with that great gift of being a "pusher." But they were told that they were all natural pushers—it was merely necessary that they should believe with a sort of savage passion in what they were selling. He even urged each one to buy some stock himself, if possible, in order to ...

— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... have to make a pusher out of herself to have beaus; it's natural for her to have them in moderation. I don't want my girl shut out of her ...

— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst

... boarding-house, and they say he asked Mrs. Gurrey if he ought to put on a dress-suit for supper! Imagine! Can you beat that? And him nothing but a Swede tailor—Erik Valborg his name is. But he used to be in a tailor shop in Minneapolis (they do say he's a smart needle-pusher, at that) and he tries to let on that he's a regular city fellow. They say he tries to make people think he's a poet—carries books around and pretends to read 'em. Myrtle Cass says she met him at a dance, and he was mooning around ...

— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

... horsemanship is exhibited by the flyers! Tongs comes off at the first fence, the horse making straight for a pond, while the rest rattle on in a mass. The second fence is small, but there's a ditch on the far side, and Pusher and Gander severally measure their lengths on the rushy pasture beyond. Still there are ten left, and nobody ever reckoned upon these getting to the ...

— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees

... of juggling the elements of a drafting board. He must have patient endurance and sufficient strength of character to use the eraser heroically, for the eraser is mightier than the pencil in the drafting-room. There are a thousand valiant knights armed with pencils to one stalwart pusher of ...

— Industrial Progress and Human Economics • James Hartness

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