different between pasher vs pusher

English

Etymology

pash +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

pasher (plural pashers)

1. (Australia and New Zealand, slang) One who pashes (snogs, kisses).

   My boyfriend is such a good pasher!

   • 2003, Barry Crocker, The Adventures of Barry Crocker: Bazza, page 76,

     ‘And seeing you told me you?re such a good pasher, you can kiss me goodnight if you like.’

   • 2005, Andrew Daddo, Youse Two, unnumbered page,

     Ms Fitzgibbon turned her attention back to the pashers, who had now separated. That didn?t last long. They were walking back to camp, holding hands.

   • 2009, Andrew Cox, Settling for It, Tamara Sheward, Jenny Valentish (editors), Your Mother Would Be Proud: True Tales of Mayhem and Misadventure, Allen & Unwin, Australia, page 407,

     Nevertheless, I was off and running and thereafter enjoyed a period as one of this country?s most promiscuous pashers. With a minimum of sweet-talk almost anyone could kiss me, I was so fucking easy.

Anagrams

• E sharp, E-sharp, Harpes, Sharpe, Sherpa, Spehar, e sharp, e-sharp, harpes, hepars, phares, phaser, phrase, raphes, seraph, shaper, sharpe, sherpa, shrape, sphear

English

Etymology

From push +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p???/

Noun

pusher (plural pushers)

1. Someone or something that pushes. [from 16th c.]
2. A person employed to push passengers onto trains at busy times, so they can depart on schedule.
3. (military slang) A girl or woman. [from 20th c.]
   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, p. 208:

     ‘You should a seed some o' the pushers. Girls o' seventeen painted worse nor any Gerties I'd ever knowed.’

4. (colloquial) A drug dealer. [from 20th c.]
5. (aeronautics) An aircraft with the propeller behind the fuselage. [from 20th c.]
6. A device that one pushes in order to transport a baby while on foot, such as a stroller or pram (as opposed to a carrier such as a front or back pack).
7. (tennis) A defensive player who does not attempt to hit winners, instead playing slower shots into the opponent's court.
8. (historical, informal) A tolkach.
   • 1993, Bertram Silverman, Robert C. Vogt, Murray Yanowitch, Double Shift (page 249)

     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 (page 35)

     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, […]

Antonyms

• pushee

Derived terms

• coal pusher
• paper-pusher
• pen-pusher
• pencil-pusher
• penny pusher
• pixel pusher
• woodpusher

Translations

See also

• (aviation): tractor

Anagrams

• uphers

Italian

Etymology

English pusher.

Noun

pusher m or f (plural pushers)

1. pusher (drug dealer)

   Synonym: spacciatore