Dictionary Definition
pushover
Noun
1 someone who is easily taken advantage of
2 any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing
this product will be no picnic" [syn: cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup,
child's
play, walkover,
piece
of cake]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
Translations
Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to
change his/her mind or comply
- German: Schwächling
Extensive Definition
The word pushover may refer to the following
things:
- Pushover EP, an EP by Australian artist Lisa Miller
- Pushover (video game) (aka Push-Over), a game for the Amiga, Atari ST, DOS and SNES
- Pushover (film) a 1954 film noir starring Kim Novak in her first major film role
- Push Over, a game played on The Price Is Right
- "Pushover", a song by The Long Winters from the 2006 album Putting the Days to Bed
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Cadmean victory, KO, Milquetoast, Pyrrhic
victory, ascendancy,
babe, baby, big baby, boob, breeze, championship, chicken, chump, cinch, cipher, conquest, credulous person,
crybaby, cull, doormat, duck, dud, dull tool, dummy, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings,
easy target, easy thing, easy victory, fall guy, fish, fool, gobe-mouches, grand slam,
greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, gutless wonder, hollow man,
innocent, invertebrate, jackstraw, jellyfish, knockout, landslide, landslide victory,
lay figure, lead-pipe cinch, leadpipe cinch, lightweight, man of straw,
mastery, meek soul,
milksop, mollycoddle, monkey, moral victory, mug, namby-pamby, nebbish, nobody, nonentity, nothing, nullity, pansy, pantywaist, patsy, picnic, pie, piece of cake, pigeon, pipe, plaything, prize sap, puppet, runaway victory, sad
sack, sap, saphead, schlemiel, setup, sinecure, sissy, sitting duck, snap, soft touch, softling, softy, sop, stooge, subdual, subduing, success, sucker, sure thing, thing of
naught, total victory, toy,
trifle, triumph, trusting soul, velvet, victim, victory, walkaway, walkover, weak sister, weakling, win, winning, winning streak,
zero