Definition of pusher
: one that pushes;
especially
: one that pushes illegal drugs
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Haarlem’s Grote Markt (Market Square) cheers me with a festival of flowers, bright bolts of cloth, evangelical cheese pushers, and warm, gooey stroopwafels.
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The officers — Arnel Oares, Jeremias Pereda and Jerwin Cruz — were charged in a lower court in Caloocan City, north of Manila, along with an informant who had erroneously identified the boy, Kian Loyd delos Santos, as a drug pusher.
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But still, for a show that’s supposed to be — and sometimes is — a cultural envelope-pusher, the lack of LGBT representation is certainly remarkable.
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The two are kindred spirits -- outsider envelope pushers who’ve each found themselves at music’s A-list table thanks to a series of connections and collaborations over time.
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Trump in the past has addressed the issue of tough penalties for drug dealers and pushers.
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The driver has to push, too, and pushers are beasts.
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Olympic outlook:Less than three years after taking up bobsled, McGuffie will be a four-man bobsled pusher and two-man bobsled brakeman for Team USA.
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About 4,000 people accused of being drug pushers and addicts have died since Mr. Duterte took office in 2016, according to police statistics.
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