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push-down

[poosh-doun]
–noun Aeronautics.
a sudden, downward shift by an aircraft in the direction of the flight path.
Also called pushover.


Origin:
1935–40; n. use of v. phrase push down
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push down

verb
cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet" [syn: down
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