pushover

[ poosh-oh-ver ]
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noun
  1. Informal. anything done easily.

  2. Informal. an easily defeated person or team.

  1. Informal. a person who is easily persuaded, influenced, or seduced.

  2. Rocketry. a displacement in a horizontal direction of the trajectory of a missile or rocket.

  3. Aeronautics. push-down.

Origin of pushover

1
1905–10, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase push over

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British Dictionary definitions for pushover

pushover

/ (ˈpʊʃˌəʊvə) /


nouninformal
  1. something that is easily achieved or accomplished

  2. a person, team, etc, that is easily taken advantage of or defeated

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