Definition of "pusher" [push•er]

• Slang One who sells drugs illegally. (noun)

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• "On April 14, accompanied by his mechanic Teodoro Madariaga, Salinas flew Sonora, his Glenn Martin pusher biplane, overhead and began bombing the Guerrero."
• "Except, perhaps, if the pusher is teaching you how to sell cut drugs."
• "Frist is the main pusher of the nuclear option and if he is too sidetracked or marginalized as is Delay, then the attempt by the neocons to savage tradition has less of a chance of happening."