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push over

Verb

Meaning

To push something such that it falls.

(intransitive, aviation) To abruptly lower the nose of an aircraft by a large angle.
The pilot pushed over into a dive to try to outrun the enemy fighters.

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It was the French way, the method that had brought victory to the armies of the Empire, the irresistible mass. Throw the mass like a human missile at the Castle's defenders, overwhelm them with targets, terrify them with the massed drummers in the column's centre, and push over the dead to victory. Bernard Cornwell

I could instance a load of fuckers whose throats I'd cut and push over the nearest cliffs, but there's no percentage in that! Charles Haughey

I could instance a load of fuckers whose throats I'd cut and push over a cliff. Charles Haughey

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