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pusher noun- a drug dealer US, 1935
- Chico slipped the watch on his wrist and they went looking for Domingo, the pusher, to see if he would want it. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 15, 1952
- Those nine people are pushers. They handle retail. — John D. McDonald, The Neon Jungle, p. 61, 1953
- What frightened the owners most were the “pushers,” the traders in narcotics. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 286, 1956
- Many addicts–especially pushers–wear a rubber band on their wrists (a dealer’s band, some call it) which, if hooked properly around a deck of heroin, will send it flying if an approaching detective is spotted. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 15, 1966
- Everyone down on the pusher, but he don’t push nobody, he only push the dope. He provides a service, that’s all–somebody got to do it. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 41, 1975
- I’m no pusher, Betsy. Honest. — Taxi Driver, 1976
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 93, 1996
- in the circus or carnival, a foreman US
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 73, 1980
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