push

push
   1. (of a male)
   to copulate with
   The usual thrusting imagery but also from the rhyming slang, a push in the truck:
    'You pushing her?'... 'Every chance I get.' (Sanders, 1970 — the lady was not confined to a wheelchair)
   Whence, in West Africa and perhaps elsewhere, push, copulation:
    Sing, dance, cook, plenty push. (Sanders, 1977 — a female servant was being extolled to a bachelor)
   2. (the) peremptory dismissal from employment
   Given by the employer. Seldom of an employee leaving of his own volition:
    It is conceivable that not all employees relished the chance of encouraging ambitious young men to give their firm 'the Push'. (E. S. Turner, 1952)
   3. a sustained attack in war
   Jargon from the Second World war:
    The gen is that the jerries are preparing a push on Alam Haifa. (Manning, 1977)
   4. to distribute (narcotics) illegally
   Literally, to sell energetically or fraudulently, as with a share pusher who sells securities at false values. A pusher is an illegal distributor of narcotics:
    He was on the weed. I pretended I was a pusher. (Chandler, 1958)

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