Pusher

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈpʊʃə/

Origin

From push + -er.

Full definition of pusher

Noun

1. Someone or something that pushes. from 16th c.
2. (military slang) A girl or woman. from 20th c.
• 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, p. 208:‘You should a seed some o' the pushers. Girls o' seventeen painted worse nor any Gerties I'd ever knowed.’
3. (colloquial) An illegal drug dealer. from 20th c.
4. (aeronautics) An aircraft with the propeller behind the fuselage. from 20th c.

Derived terms

• paper-pusher
• pen-pusher
• pencil-pusher

Anagrams

• uphers