1968,Hoyt Axton, “The Pusher”, inSteppenwolf, performed by Steppenwolf:
But thepusher don't care / Ah, if you live or if you die / God damn, thepusher / God damn, I say thepusher
2016 December 16,Rodrigo Duterte,Speech of President Rodrigo Duterte during the Meeting with the Filipino Community in Singapore, The Max Pavilion and Hall 9[1]:
My campaign against drug will not stop until the, until the end of my term. That will be six years from now. Until the lastpusher and the last drug lord are –[applause]
(aeronautics) An aircraft with the propeller behind thefuselage.[from 20th c.]
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 apusher would never make it up there. You can hardly carry a fully loaded pram and baby up two flights.
2017, Simona Vlad, Nicolae Marius Roman,International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology,→ISBN, page279:
Two of the participants even decided to purchase a carrier instead of apusher as they wanted to “permanently hold their baby”.
(tennis) Adefensiveplayer who does not attempt to hitwinners, instead playing slower shots into the opponent's court.
1993, Bertram Silverman, Robert C. Vogt, Murray Yanowitch,Double Shift, page249:
Time-and-motion study meant objective (that is, testable) standards for setting the pace of work so that, when workers complained of speedup, it was now less out of outrage that the foreman was a "pusher" than that the system itself was being violated or manipulated.
2017, Michael Rywkin,Soviet Society Today, page35:
Large factories use “pushers” who cajole, threaten, wine, dine, and bribe those in whose hands rests the power to allocate needed resources, machinery, raw materials, or spare parts. It is often the only way to cross the bureaucratic thicket,[…]
2018 February 7, “Spari sui neri a Macerata, il ministro Orlando: «Tricolore infangato da un folle»”, inCorriere della Sera[2]:
Nell’inchiesta è entrato intanto in secondo indagato: unpusher nigeriano che avrebbe ceduto a Pamela, allontanatasi dalla Comunità di recupero Pars di Corridonia il 29 gennaio, una dose di eroina nei giardini Diaz di Macerata, luogo di ritrovo di spacciatori, il 30 gennaio, ultimo giorno in cui la ragazza è stata vista in vita.
