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pushover|ˈpʊʃəʊvə(r)|
Also push-over, push over.
[f. vbl. phr. to push over: see push v. 1 b.]
1. Something easily accomplished or overcome: an easy task or victory; a ‘cinch’. slang (orig. U.S.).
1906Outing Jan. 461/2 To me it looks like a push-over. 1926Amer. Mercury Dec. 465/2 The combination is a push-over on Loew's or any other time. 1927Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 67/2 Among some of Conway's more famous expressions are:..‘It's a push-over’ (a ‘cinch’; easy to accomplish); [etc.]. 1931E. Linklater Juan in Amer. ii. xiii. 147 Those Princeton guys have been boasting that this game's a pushover for them. 1943Amer. Speech XVIII. 256 Americanisms which have wide currency in Australia:..pushover, [etc.]. 1951‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids vii. 133 If Brigham Young could bring it off in the middle of the nineteenth century, this ought to be a push⁓over. 1973P. Malloch Kickback xxi. 133 About the security van... It's going to be hard to take... Eight years ago they were a push-over.
2. Someone who is easily pushed over or overcome. slang (orig. U.S.).
a. Boxing. A mediocre fighter.
1926Variety 29 Dec. 7/4 A push-over, which means a fighter with round heels along cauliflower alley, was, by the same token, a dame on rockers in another circle. 1958C. Williams Man in Motion (1959) iii. 27 He was a long way from being a push-over. He was a little heavier than I am, and he could really punch.
b. A woman who makes little resistance to demands for sexual intercourse; an easy ‘lay’.
1926[see sense 2 a above]. 1929E. Wilson I thought of Daisy i. 16 Oh, Myra Busch is a push-over!.. She's got round heels! 1936[see cinch n. 2]. 1949H. Wadman Life Sentence ii. i. 49 Then you came along with Lawrence—the dark reasons of the blood, and so on. Naturally I was a pushover for you. 1955D. Barton Glorious Life xlvi. 155 She was a pushover, hardly worth the elaborate build-up. 1978M. Puzo Fools Die xlvi. 487 Why the hell shouldn't she be a pushover? Weren't men pushovers for girls who fucked everybody?
c. An easy victim.
1934Sun (Baltimore) 3 May 12/7 The would-be cracksmen have come to regard a policeman as a natural push⁓over. 1941W. Stevens Let. 13 Jan. (1967) 385, I suppose Denmark was a push-over on account of the pastry they eat there. 1959F. Richards Practise to Deceive vii. 106 You tell me that I'm..such a pushover—that a good-looking man can..wrap me around his little finger? 1975D. W. S. Hunt On Spot v. 83 Since then our overseas suppliers have never been quite sure that we are a push⁓over at any price they like to ask.
d. Const. for. One who is readily influenced by or susceptible to the attraction of something; a ‘sucker’.
1944H. Croome You've gone Astray xii. 123 Are you quite advertisement-proof yourself?.. I'm not. I'm a pushover for Vanity. 1946‘J. Tey’ Miss Pym Disposes xviii. 184 I'm a push-over for passing plates. It must be the gigolo in me. 1956S. Ertz Charmed Circle 96 He was always trying new tooth pastes and was a ‘pushover’..for all the advertisements he saw. 1975New Yorker 21 Apr. 139/1 This department, always an old pushover for a picture horse, picks Foolish Pleasure.
3. Rugby Football. The action whereby one side in a scrum pushes the ball over the opponents' goal line, esp. in pushover try.
1958Observer 14 Dec. 24/2 A ‘pushover’ try by Blackheath..was the only score in a game in which the players could be heard ploughing their way through the mud. 1959Ibid. 15 Mar. 32/8 The Welsh pack wheeled..to try a pushover. 1960Times 7 Mar. 4/7 After 25 minutes came a genuine pushover. 1977Western Mail (Cardiff) 5 Mar. (Rugby Suppl.) 4/3 J. J. Williams's disallowed try in that game, I felt, was only as dubious as the England push-over try, also disallowed. |