push-outn.adj.
/ˈpʊʃaʊt/, U.S. /ˈpʊʃˌaʊt/ A. n. slang (chiefly U.S.).
A person who is made to leave somewhere, esp. school.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > educational administration > school administration > [noun] > one who is made to leave school
push-out1962
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > expulsion or driving out > one who is expelled
push-out1962
1962 Washington Post 10 May b4/7 Many dropouts are push-outs—they left because nobody cared.
1973 Times 17 Dec. 2 The growing number of girls who are becoming homeless are not ‘drop-outs’, as generally thought, but ‘push-outs’.
1987 E. Simpson Orphans (1988) ii. xiii. 232 Some are ‘push-outs’ and ‘throw-aways’—meaning that the adults they lived with urged them to leave, knowing they had no place to go.
2001 N.Y. Mag. 16 July 15 Dunn, who runs the education department at a public employees' union, spoke about their work together in the seventies assisting ‘dropouts, push-outs, fall-outs, and shame-outs’.
B. adj.
That pushes out, or can be pushed out.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [adjective] > that pushes (something) out
push-out1977
1977 Design Engin. July 73/2 They are easily installed by simply squeezing into punched or drilled holes in 1·5mm cold-rolled steel sheets, and resist pushout forces of 260lb.
1998 Bloomington (Indiana) Herald-Times 3 May a4/5 Kentucky changed its specifications for school buses to require flame-retardant seats, fuel tank cages, push-out windows,..and escape hatches in the roof.
2006 Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune (Nexis) 28 May e2 Many played in a local version of ‘Laugh-In’, complete with a wall of push-out windows and guests popping in and out of them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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