push

Esp. West, Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1942 quote.

Quotations

1930

"the push jest told me that the yarder went and broke down today. . . ."

1942

_PUSH. A word used for the camp foreman and occasionally for lesser foremen.

1953

"Well, I'll tell you," says Pete, "I'd a made her I think/ But the push, the damn fool, couldn't lay off the drink."