Pusher

Definition: Pusher

Pusher

Noun

1. One who intrudes or pushes himself forward.

2. An unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs.

3. Someone who pushes.

4. A sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes.

5. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pusher" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)

Metallurgy

Mining

Occupations

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Pusher

Crosswords: Pusher

German (peddler, pedlar, pusher).

'He's a prophethe's a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction. (Taxi Driver; writing credit: Paul Schrader)

Girl Pusher (1968)

The Pusher (1960)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Ships, Boats, and Other Vessels Excluding Pleasure Craft, Tugs, Pusher Craft, Special Purpose Vessels, and Vessels for Breaking Up: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Investigation report on the capsizing of the pusher vessel Finn and the barge Baltic off Hanko on 27 December 1990 (reference)

• Meet the Pusher (reference)

• The cocaine pusher (reference)

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Periodicals

• Canard Pusher Newsletter (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• The X-Files Boxed Set - V. 6 (Wetwired, Talitha Cumi, Pusher, Jose Chung's "From Outer Space", Piper Maru, and Apocrypha) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Clean Up Your Environment : Turn In A Drug Pusher. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Stands by his Curtiss pusher biplane, just before taking off from USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4) to return to land, 18 January 1911. Earlier in the day he landed on the ship's deck, the first time an airplane had alighted on a warship. Pennsylvania was then at anchor in San Francisco Bay, California. Note the light emergency floats under the plane's lower wings and Ely's flying attire, including rubber inner tubes worn around his shoulders as a life preserver. The hooks on the bottom of the plane's undercarriage were used to catch lines placed across the ship's landing platform in order to bring the aircraft to a stop. Credit: NAVY.

A floating crane lifts Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane from the Norfolk Navy Yard pier, Virginia, in preparation for placing it on board USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2), shortly before the flight. Birmingham is partially visible at left, behind the crane. Credit: NAVY.

USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2) bound for Hampton Roads, after leaving the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, with Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane on board, 14 November 1910. Ely took his plane off from Birmingham later that afternoon. Credit: NAVY.

Eugene B. Ely flies his Curtiss pusher airplane from USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2), in Hampton Roads, Virginia, during the afternoon of 14 November 1910. USS Roe (Destroyer # 24), serving as plane guard, is visible in the background. Credit: NAVY.

At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in January 1911, after she had been fitted with a temporary wooden deck in preparation for Eugene Ely's airplane landing attempt. Ely landed his Curtiss pusher biplane on board the ship on 18 January, the first airplane landing on a warship. The landing deck, 120 feet long and 30 feet wide, was inclined slightly to help slow the plane as it landed, and had a thirty-degree ramp at its after end. Credit: NAVY.

Postal card of portrait photographs by J. Ellsworth Gross, Chicago, Illinois, 1910. Featured are Whipple Hall, Eugene B. Ely, J.A.D. McCurdy, Glenn H. Curtiss, J.C. "Bud" Mars, James J. Ward, Charles F. Willard, and two views of Curtiss pusher biplanes in flight. Probably taken during the Chicago aviation meet in early October 1910. Credit: NAVY.

In flying gear, standing by his Curtiss pusher biplane, circa 1911. Note the rubber inner tubes worn as a life preserver in case of a forced water landing. Credit: NAVY.

Seated in a Curtiss pusher biplane, ready to take off, 1910. Credit: NAVY.

A policeman guarding the wreckage of Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane, after his fatal crash at Macon, Georgia, 19 October 1911. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "pusher": drug pusher ♦ pavement pusher ♦ pedal pusher ♦ pen pusher ♦ pencil pusher ♦ pill pusher ♦ polygon pusher ♦ pusher machine ♦ pusher operation ♦ pusher propeller ♦ stick pusher. Additional references.

Ending with "pusher": dope-pusher, drug-pusher, pen-pusher, share-pusher.

Albanian

shpërndarës droge, karierist (careerist), avion me helikë prapa. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهرب (bootlegger, escape, trafficker), ‏تاجر مخدرات, ‏إنتهازي (machiavellian, opportunist, profiteer, pushful, pushy), ‏شخص نهاز للفرص. (various references)

Bulgarian 

тикач (mule), кариерист (careerist, climber, go getter, place hunter, placeman, self-seeker, social climber), амбициозен нахакан човек. (various references)

Chinese 

推者. (various references)

Czech

prùbojný chlapík, kariérista (careerist, go getter). (various references)

Danish

pusher (addict-peddler, addict-pusher, bagman, broker, candyman, dealer), udrager (ware pusher), stempelløfter, småforhandler, slaebebaad (push boat, push tug, pusher craft, push-tow craft, push-tow tug, push-tug, towboat, tugboat), skubber, skubbebaad (push boat, push tug, pusher craft, push-tow craft, push-tow tug, push-tug, towboat), mekanisk hjaelpemiddel til rangering (cager, decking ram, onsetting machine, pushing device), koksudstoedningsmaskine (pusher machine), arbejder der bringer vogne fra omladestation til brydningssporet (hurrier, putter). (various references)

Dutch

pusher, wagenduwer (cager, decking ram, onsetting machine, pushing device), uitstootmachine (pusher machine), uitdrukmachine (pusher machine), stoter, stacker-lat (ware pusher), kooksuitstootmachine (pusher machine), duwboot (push boat, push tug, pusher craft, push-tow craft, push-tow tug, push-tug, towboat), duwarm (ware pusher), drukmachine (pusher machine), doorstoter, doorduwer. (various references)

Farsi 

زوردهنده . (various references)

Finnish

työntäjä (ware pusher), tuuppari (ware pusher), koksinulostyöntökone (pusher machine). (various references)

French

pousseur (push boat, push tug, pusher craft, push-tow craft, push-tow tug, push-tug), pusher (to push), poussoir (push button), pousseuse, bras-poussoir (ware pusher), cylindre avanceur (pushing cylinder, pushing ram), déballeur (putter), défourneuse (pusher machine), distributeur, arriviste (pushful, pushing, pushy), engin pousseur (push boat, push tug, pusher craft, push-tow craft, push-tow tug, push-tug), revendeur de drogue, râteau (ware pusher), râteau-poussoir (ware pusher), ravitailleur en drogue, encageur mécanique (pushing device). (various references)

German

schieber (bedpan, black marketeer, damper, fixer, grafter, gun runner, racketeer, shuffle, slider, sliders, wangler, wanglers), Pusher (peddler, pedlar). (various references)

Greek 

ρυμουλκό ώθησης (push boat, push tug, pusher craft, push-tow craft, push-tow tug, push-tug, towboat), σκάφος ωθητήρας (push boat, push tug, pusher craft, push-tow craft, push-tow tug, push-tug, towboat), σπρώχνων, μηχανή εκκένωσης (pusher machine), μηχανή εξαγωγής οπτάνθρακος δια πιέσεως (pusher machine), προωθητής γυάλινων αντικειμένων (ware pusher), ωθών (thruster), εμποράκος, τεμάχιο επαφής εμβόλου αντλίας πετρελαίου με τον εκκεντροφόρο της, διωστήρας (connecting rod, conn-rod, con-rod, control rod, piston rod, pitman, push rod, rod). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרפקן (thruster), �"וחף, בעל מרפקים (elbower, gate crasher, thruster), סוחר סמים (drug dealer). (various references)

Hungarian

toló (pushing), tolató, tolóka (cursor, finger, slide, sliding bolt), törtető ember, kábítószer-kereskedő (drug-pusher), fúrómester, csilletoló, betoló rúd, betűkilökő kar. (various references)

Indonesian

orang yang ambisius. (various references)

Italian

punteria (tappet), spingitore (cager, decking ram, onsetting machine, pushing device), spacciatore di droga, spacciatore (bagman, broker, candyman, dealer), sfornatrice (pusher machine), rimorchiatore a spinta (push boat, push tug, pusher craft, push-tow craft, push-tow tug, push-tug, towboat), refouleur (cager, decking ram, onsetting machine, pushing device), macchina sfornatrice (pusher machine), dispositivo di spinta, caricatore meccanico a spinta (ware pusher), arrivista (careerist, climber, go getter, pushing, social climber, upstage). (various references)

Korean 

미�" 사람. (various references)

Manx

seiyder (agitator, mixer, shover, sticker, stirrer, thruster), puhtteyder (bulldozer, jostler), creckeyder druggaghyn. (various references)

Pig Latin

usherpay

Portuguese

pessoa que empurra, pessoa ambiciosa, videirinho (pushful, pushing), tuche (lifter, tappet, valve lifter, valve plunger), taco (club, dowel, golf club, mace, peg, plug, stick), impulsor (control rod, impeller, push rod, rotor, wheel), empurrador, desenfornar (oven pushing, pusher machine, pushing, to discharge), controle (command, control, domination, governance, grip, hand, manage, mastership, tune-up), braço carregador da arca por empurrão (ware pusher). (various references)

Romanian

persoanã insistentã, om încrezut, împungãtor. (various references)

Russian 

напористый человек, маневровый паровоз (shunter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rasturač droge, laktaroš (place hunter, upstart). (various references)

Spanish

arribista (arriviste, go getter, placeman, upstart). (various references)

Swedish

gåpåare (hustle). (various references)

Thai

ผู้ผลัก�"ัน. (various references)

Turkish

uyuşturucu satıcısı (connection, drug dealer, drug peddler, drug pusher), sürgü (bar, bedpan, bolt, chamber pot, clack, cursor, Harrow, slide, sliding bar, urinal), itici lokomotif, itici (impulsive, projectile, propellent, propelling, propulsive, pushing, repellent, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, unattractive, unlikable, unlikeable, unlovely, unprepossessing), fırsatçı (opportunist, profiteer, temporizer, temporizing, time server, timeserving). (various references)

Ukrainian

скидач, самовпевнена людина, торговець наркотиками, штовхач, штовхальний гвинт, виштовхувач (ejector, eliminator), маневровий паровоз (pug), буксир-штовхач. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người đẩy. (various references)

Welsh

gwthiwr. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pusher": pushers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pusher" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paschero, pensher, Pescheor, Peuser, pisher, Pishpek, Pokhrel, Polshek, poshe, posher, Pshe, Puchero, Puchrrt, Pukhov, puser, pushe, pushey, pusuer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: purse, sprue, super, usher.

-2 letters: hers, hues, pehs, pure, purs, push, reps, resh, rhus, rues, ruse, rush, spue, spur, suer, supe, sure, user.

-3 letters: ers, hep, her, hes, hue, hup, peh, per, pes, pur, pus, rep, res, rue, ser, she, sue, sup, ups, use.

-4 letters: eh, er, es, he, pe, re, sh, uh, up.

+1 letter: plusher, pushers, pushier, uphroes.

+2 letters: euphrasy, euphroes, haruspex, murphies, plushier, punchers, punisher, purchase, pushover, spherule, superhit, superhot, thumpers, turpeths, unsphere, uprushed, uprushes.

+3 letters: euphorias, grumphies, ploughers, poorhouse, prehumans, preshrunk, publisher, punishers, purchased, purchaser, purchases, pushovers, republish, rulership, sepulcher, sepulchre, shunpiker, spherules, sulphured, superchic, superheat, superhero, superhits, superhype, superrich, supershow, superthin, surfperch, unsphered, unspheres, upgathers, upheavers, upholders, upholster, upreaches.