Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Energetic; enterprising.
- adj. Aggressive; forward; presuming.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pressing forward in business; putting one's self forward; self-assertive.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of push.
- v. Dealing illicit drugs, especially to minors.
- adj. That pushes forward; pressing, driving.
- adj. Aggressively assertive; pushy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of applying force in order to move something away
Examples
“After spending the first two years of his term pushing greater federal spending to fight the effects of the great recession, he largely ignored recommendations to cut deficits by his own bipartisan commission headed by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, and did not propose any significant deficit reductions in his Feb. 1 budget proposal to Congress.”
““That happened to me when it came to the expression pushing the envelope,” Mr. Wolfe continued, enclosing a clipping from The New York Times with the headline, “Pushing the Bleeping Envelope.””
“Also, he mistakenly stated that the phrase "pushing the envelope" dates to WWII.”
“That's just a felony: spending the first year of your term pushing an ABC plan that is laughable is the real crime.”
The Washington Post: Killing the Messenger: Who will dare give His Excellency the bad news?
“It's what we call pushing everything in the forward lean.”
“This is, I think, the most consistent collection of designs that are doing what I describe as pushing the boundaries of game design in the most interesting and consistently thoughtful ways," said Jonathan Blow, the panel's organizer and the independent designer behind the time-bending puzzle platformer”
“This is, I think, the most consistent collection of designs that are doing what I describe as pushing the boundaries of game design in the most interesting and consistently thoughtful ways," said Jonathan Blow, the panel's organizer and the independent designer behind the time-bending puzzle platformer "Braid" (which is available for Xbox Live Arcade and PC).”
“There he goes again pushing his socialist concept of higher education ... now, how on earth are our kids going to become REAL AMERICANS if they're pushed into learning something?”
“So far, it appears that the Dems are ONLY INTERESTED in pushing an agenda that will only benefit themselves.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pushing’.
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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I like . . .
cameltoe, tryst, pistachio, aphrodisiac, atonement, velvet, caipirinha, riffraff, rhetoric, bassoon, soiree, leverage and 70 more...
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∆∆∆
cadence, fracture, utter, regression, incessant, inverted, trashy, suspend, waiting, semblance, unbearable, nausea and 35 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pushing.
bilby "Matassa appears to be pushing a good race here."
- commentator wheelchair 400m race at the Paralympics, 11 Sep 2008. Sep 11, 2008
bilby "I saw that love was a game that two people couldn't play at without pushing, just like football."
- Frank O'Connor, 'The Genius'. Sep 5, 2008