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Meanings of pusher in English
A small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around.
Boat designed for pushing barges or car floats.
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Examples for "towboat"
Examples for "towboat"
1
The towboat and the railroad had done their work, and done it well and completely.
2
Eastern Steamship Lines have changed the names of their steam-towboat Germania to George E. Weed.
3
The Coast Guard directed a commercial towboat operator to escort the private vessel back to Provincetown.
4
Mayo looked straight into the towboat man's eyes.
5
Captain Shevlin bounded up in the cockpit, cupped his hands, and yelled across to the towboat captain.
Worker who pushes people onto the train at a railway station during the morning and evening rush hours.
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Portuguese
traficante Catalan
traficant Usage of pusher in English
1
The fine was handed down to Tom Steels, the pusher in question.
2
A paper pusher like me is perfect to go through Jonathan's papers.
3
The F.E.2b pusher, discarded as a fighting machine, became the principal night-bomber.
4
I'm just a lawyer who specializes in human resources-your basic paper pusher.
5
First off, Emma had never seen a paper-pusher built like Thomas Tobin.
6
The Howard Wright biplane was a pusher with large lifting monoplane tail.
7
He hates people the same way a drug addict hates his pusher.
8
What's the matter, guys, didn't you know your partner was a pusher?
9
Nevertheless do not let us imagine that he was a common pusher.
10
He lifted the little pusher to eye level and glared at him.
11
Alan was playing a posh drug pusher, selling drugs to local kids.
12
And there was the guy, the lowlife pusher who'd been holding Lindy.
13
House music's latest boundary pusher is redefining house music for a new generation.
14
You claim to be a paper pusher, but paper pushers freeze.
15
Boeing plans to use a similar pusher abort system for its CST-100 capsule.
16
The question that troubles us is who is to be our President's pusher?
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Pusher across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common