push|o|ver

push|o|ver
push|o|ver or push-o|ver «PUSH OH vuhr», noun. Slang.
1. something very easy to do: »

It was a push-over, he added, with five days off a week (Sunday Times).

2. a person very easy to beat in a contest: »

He must have been the proverbial pushover (Cape Times).

3. a person easily influenced or swayed or unable to resist a particular appeal: »

I am not usually a pushover for newsreel shots or telecasts of races (New Yorker).

4. the beginning of a dive in an airplane as the stick is pushed forward.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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