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, noun use of verb phrase push over

Example Sentences

“A Swanburne girl may forgive as she chooses, but she is no pushover, either,” she told herself, and felt rather pleased about it, too.

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That doesn’t mean she was a pushover or naive; she took names and kept receipts of those who had done her wrong.

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As a summary of his research succinctly put it: “Be nice. Be ready to forgive. But don’t be a pushover.”

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She also turns out to be no pushover herself, yet even she sees the Freemans as misanthropic freaks.

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“We advise consumers to give insurers the chance to do the right thing but to not be pushovers and realize insurers are for-profit companies and not charitable organizations,” she said.

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Related Words

• cinch 
• piece of cake 
• sucker