pushover

[ poosh-oh-ver ]

noun

1. Informal. anything done easily.
2. Informal. an easily defeated person or team.
3. Informal. a person who is easily persuaded, influenced, or seduced.
4. Rocketry. a displacement in a horizontal direction of the trajectory of a missile or rocket.
5. Aeronautics. push-down.

pushover

/ ˈpʊʃˌəʊvə /

noun

1. something that is easily achieved or accomplished
2. a person, team, etc, that is easily taken advantage of or defeated

Word History and Origins

Origin of pushover¹

1905–10, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase push over

Example Sentences

They know Trump is a pushover.

From Salon

“In my past, if I ever chose someone who was good, they were too soft for me — too sweet or a pushover. And Simon is not sweet in a wimpy way. He has a feminist soul with a masculine energy.”

From Los Angeles Times

It’s harder to prove that friendship has made a reporter a pushover for his sources, so platonic relationships tend to go uncontested, and we stupidly reserve the scarlet letter of lost impartiality for romancing journalists only.

From Slate

Alito, indeed no pushover on the bench, insists: “I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused.”

From Slate

“I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused,” insists Alito—who is no pushover on the bench.

From Slate

Related Words

• cinch
• piece of cake
• sucker