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ˈpush-up, n. and a.
Also pushup, push up.
[f. vbl. phr. to push up: see push v. 1 b.]
A. n. = press-up; also, an exercise on parallel bars in which the body is supported by the bent forearms and raised by straightening the arms. Also attrib. Chiefly U.S.
1906Amer. Mag. LXIII. 139/1 First they put him on the parallel bars and beseeched him to do many push⁓ups, prodding him gently to further exertion when he showed signs of fatigue. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 16 June 8/6 Ten pushups and work details are standard punishments for other minor offences. 1952J. Steinbeck East of Eden xlvi. 516 William C. Bunt died right on the armory floor in the middle of a push-up. His heart couldn't take it. 1958Times 26 Feb. 8/4 Half the boys examined could not do a single push up. 1968M. Richler Cocksure vii. 44 Tomasso..did push-ups on his office carpet every morning. 1973Black Panther 24 Mar. 6/2 Sometimes they make you remain in a push-up position on your knuckles until your knuckles begin to bleed. 1978S. Brill Teamsters iii. 107 Twenty push-ups..was all the exercise a busy union leader should have time for.
2. The act or process of picking a pocket in which the victim's arm is pushed away from his pocket by an accomplice; also attrib., as push-up man, push-up mob. Austral. slang.
1919V. Marshall World of Living Dead 69 He acts as chief amongst his ‘push-up’ and ‘break’ men, associates skilled in their way, but unpossessed of his dexterity. 1938F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad i. 15 Pick-pockets are known as ‘Wizzers’ or ‘The Push Up Mob’. Ibid. 332 Push Up (The), picking pockets.
3. A muskrat's resting-place, formed by pushing up vegetation through a hole in the ice. N. Amer.
1936K. Conibear North Land Footprints 254 There's no danger of catching her [sc. a fox] either; she didn't go near the push-up. 1956H. S. M. Kemp Northern Trader (1957) iv. 57 He indicated..the little ‘pushup’ wherein the muskrat would come to sun himself on the warmer days. 1959E. Collier Three against Wilderness xxviii. 297 The ice should be sound enough for us to get onto it afoot to start staking the muskrat push-ups.
B. adj.
1. That pushes or may be pushed up.
1963N.Y. Times 17 Nov. 12 This slipon coverall..in deftly cut cotton with..push-up sleeves. 1966A. E. Lindop I start Counting iv. 71 The big push-up windows. 1972D. Lees Zodiac 145 A door that..had one of those push-up bars like the emergency door of a cinema. 1977Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. 6-c/2 (Advt.), Seamless push-up bra with underwire, removable padding.
2. Computers. (See quots. 1966, 1977.) Cf. push-down a. 1.
1966C. J. Sippl Computer Dict. 149/2 Push-up list, a list of items where the first item is entered at the end of the list, and the other items maintain their same relative positions in the list. 1969P. B. Jordain Condensed Computer Encycl. 406 The pushup-list concept is used whenever there is a queue of approximately equal-priority requests that are waiting to be serviced. 1977P. Quittner Problems, Programs 375 Pushup list, a list that is constructed and maintained so that the next item to be retrieved and removed is the oldest item still in the list, that is first in, first out (FIFO).
▸ A bra or similar garment which is padded or underwired to give uplift to the breasts. Also: an accessory inserted into a bra or similar garment to provide such uplift.
1955Los Angeles Times 16 Feb. 4 (advt.) The semi-plunge bra with ‘push-ups’ for 32 to 36 sizes. 1960N.Y. Times 15 Dec. 32 (advt.) Soft lace cups with crescent shaped foam pushups for a high rounded bosom. 1988Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 8 May A bra museum? That's what Frederick's of Hollywood is calling its collection of bras from the past 40 years... It defines the changing shape of these decades including push-ups, peekaboos, plunge bras and pointed missiles. 2002Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 24 Feb. Brassieres were made of cotton and ‘not very pretty’ when she started selling them. Then came nylon, cups shaped like Sno-Cone holders, Lycra, underwire, push-ups, and bras that worked wonders and miracles.
▸ Designating a bra or similar garment which is padded or underwired to give uplift to the breasts. Also: designating accessories inserted into a bra to provide such uplift.
1950Chicago Daily Tribune 18 Sept. ii. 5 (advt.) Real-E-You push-up bra pads. Real-E-You pads glamourize, supplement, raise and round your bustline..give you comfortable sag-proof uplift. 1954in L. Gottwald & J. Gottwald Frederick's of Hollywood (1973) 27 New fashions demand a padded push-up bra! Stitched in push-up pads give you the full, high rounded bustline, and tantalizing high ‘cleavage’ that you've always longed for. 1962Intimate Apparel June 20 Jantzen ‘curvallure’ bra..Jantzen genius-type push-up pad, three-way strapless, nylon lace. 1975J. Mitchell In France they kiss on Main Street (song) in Hissing of Summer Lawns (record sleeve-notes) Gail and Louise In those push-up brassieres Tight dresses and rhinestone rings Drinking up the band's beer. 1992Premiere Mar. 70 Torsos of babes and studs sporting oversize crucifixes and leather and shredded jeans and lacy push-up tops. 2002Elle Mar. 246/2, I see fashion assistants arranging the models' ‘V-string’ and stuffing their bras with ‘chicken-cutlet’ push-up inserts (and you thought that cleavage was real). |