pushover
Informal. anything done easily.
Informal. an easily defeated person or team.
Informal. a person who is easily persuaded, influenced, or seduced.
Rocketry. a displacement in a horizontal direction of the trajectory of a missile or rocket.
Aeronautics. push-down.
Origin of pushover
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How to use pushover in a sentence
He was such a pathetic pushover, he even gave up the hotel room he’s splitting with his girlfriend so she can have sex with someone she picked up at the reception, which is such a Ross move.
How I Met Your Father and the Insufferable History of the Lovelorn Sitcom Dude | Eliana Dockterman | January 20, 2022 | TimeAccusations of a cupcake schedule make for sensitive discourse because a handful of teams each year actually do get lucky and face a slate of pushovers.
The Buffalo Bills Got The Least Bang For Their Schedule’s Buck This Season | Josh Hermsmeyer | January 7, 2022 | FiveThirtyEightIt should be noted that Jackson was not a complete pushover: he put many students on report, and placed some of them in arrest.
Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor | S. C. Gwynne | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNew York Times columnist Paul Krugman has jeered at Obama as "President pushover."
How Obama is Setting the Stage for Hillary in 2016 | David Frum | September 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd no wonder they despise Obama, who they view as a weakling, a loser, and a pushover.
Assad is no pushover and is not hesitant to use force to maintain his position in power—as his brutal assault on Homs shows.
Kofi Annan’s U.N. Mission Is Last-Ditch Push for Diplomacy in Syria | Bruce Jones | March 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHow did the president, a noted card player, get pegged as a pushover?
Of course, him having been places and seen and done things, I was a pushover for him.
Hookers | Richard F. MannBut Frank Brooks wasn't full of knockout drops this time, and with a clear head he was no pushover.
Deadly City | Paul W. FairmanThis takin' charge of babies ain't no sech pushover as it looks.
Faro Nell and Her Friends | Alfred Henry Lewis
British Dictionary definitions for pushover
/ (ˈpʊʃˌəʊvə) /
something that is easily achieved or accomplished
a person, team, etc, that is easily taken advantage of or defeated
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