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push
verb- to sell something, especially drugs US, 1938
- There was a government record of those cases but Sid would sooner have his throat cut than push them at legit prices to the drugstore. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 21, 1946
- Even during the years when I sold the stuff I never “pushed” it like a salesman pushes vacuum cleaners or Fuller brushes. I had it for anybody who came asking, if he was a friend of mine. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 214, 1946
- You’re pushing junk, it’s murder, baby. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 248, 1952
- Pushing weed looks good on paper, like fur farming or raising frogs. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 30, 1953
- Somebody is pushing horse and tea again. — John D. McDonald, The Neon Jungle, p. 32, 1953
- My grandma pushes tea. — West Side Story, 1957
- Everyone knows he pushes–and takes the stuff himself. — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 210, 1963
- “ I wanna push stuff,” I whispered. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 201, 1967
- Frankie has been dealing for six years without a bust. When I first met him he was pushing the stuff out of a hot-dog pushcart on St. Mark’s Place. — Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock Nation, p. 66, 1969
- I came storming up to him. “One of your chicks is pushing outside.” — Arthur Blessitt, Turned On to Jesus, p. 142, 1971
- I’m no pusher, Betsy. Honest. I never have pushed. — Taxi Driver, 1976
- Of making a few stings, getting bread together, of Whitey contacting his man and connecting for weight in heroin and of pushing. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 209, 1980
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 93, 1996
- to make a special effort to promote a professional wrestler’s image and status US
- I know Shane McMahon likes him and has told the writing team to push him, but what does he see in him? — Inside Wrestling, 25 August 2000
▶ push poo-poo
to take the active role in anal sex FIJI, 1997
recorded by Jan Tent in 1997.▶ push some leg
to have sex US- — Tom Hibbert, Rockspeak!, p. 127, 1983
▶ push the boat out
to be more generous or extravagant than usual, to act generously; especially with money UK, 1937
Originally naval slang, used of someone buying a round of drinks.- Thames did a T.V. documentary based on Sloane Rangers and really pushed the boat out. — Peter York, Style Wars, p. 16, 1980
- Milan pushed the boat out to extortionate money to get him and they made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. — The Guardian, 1 August 2002
▶ push the bush
(used of a male) to have sex with a woman US- The bartender spoke slowly, as if to an idiot child. “You know, push the bush? Slake the snake? Drain the train? Siphon the python?” — James Ellroy, Because the Night, p. 415, 1984
▶ push the envelope
to challenge current parameters US
From aviation where ENVELOPEGreedy trial sharks push envelope of evolution. — Daily Princetonian, 16 November 1998 They were going to push it. Push it further. Much further. What fucking envelope? We can do anything. — Tony Wilson, 24 Hour Party People, p. 234, 2002▶ push up the daisies; pushing up the daisies
to be dead, especially dead and buried; use is occasionally extended to the dying UK, 1918
An image first sketched as dated “turn up your toes to the daisies” in 1842–from which we derive “turn up your toes” (to die). Other variations that have slipped from use: “under the daisies”, “kick up daisies” and, less certainly, “grin at the daisy-roots”, which may also relate to “roots” (boots).- And we’re pushing up daisies for half a handful of millennia (we’re all pushing up daisies, James), until we’re powder finer than talc. — Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story, p. 17, 1986
- [W]hen we’re pushing up daisies / We all look the same — Chumbawumba Jacob’s Ladder (Not In My Name), 2002
- The mortality rate is expected to stay constant for another decade: then baby boomers will start pushing up the daisies. — The Observer, 29 September 2002
▶ push your luck
to take a risk UK, 1911- I think he [Tony Blair]’d be pushing his luck if he tried to go for another war pretty soon[.] — The Guardian, 21 May 2003
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