A person with a clerical job involving a lot of tedious and repetitive paperwork.
no way he was going to let those pencil pushers from accounting pity him
Example sentencesExamples
- She's just some housewife making dinner for her pencil-pusher husband and screaming little kids.
- Henry is an overweight man with dark hair and a thick mustache who always wears slacks and a dress shirt, as if to remind us that he does absolutely no physical labor around the garage - a true pencil-pusher.
- I think that the friendly girl that I met there in November was fired on-the-spot after my column and instantly replaced by a bunch of arrogant, incompetent pencil-pushers.
- The post-disaster setting seemed the sublimated fantasy of a disgruntled pencil-pusher.
- The friendly pencil-pusher informed me that the State of New Jersey had screwed up.