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Booster vs Pusher - What's the difference?

booster | pusher |

As nouns the difference between booster and pusher

is that booster is something that boosts while pusher is someone or something that pushes.

booster

English

Noun

(wikipedia booster) (en noun)
  • Something that boosts.
  • The first stage of a multistage rocket that provides the thrust for liftoff and the initial flight
  • A motor-generator set used for voltage regulation in direct current electrical power circuits.
  • Someone who is a fan or supporter of something.
  • * 2012 , The Economist, Lexington: A fiscal hawk, grounded
    • Nor is his district quite the Democratic bastion boosters describe: voters there narrowly backed Barack Obama in 2008, but voted for Mr Bush by a hefty margin in 2004.
  • Someone who promotes a town or business
  • A member of a booster club.
  • A booster dose.
    • When did you get your last tetanus booster ?
  • (linguistics) A term that serves to amplify or strengthen an utterance, such as "really".

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    pusher

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone or something that pushes.
  • (military slang) A girl or woman.
  • * 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 208:
  • *:‘You should a seed some o' the pushers . Girls o' seventeen painted worse nor any Gerties I'd ever knowed.’
  • (colloquial) An illegal drug dealer.
  • (aeronautics) An aircraft with the propeller behind the fuselage.

    • Derived terms

    * paper-pusher * pen-pusher * pencil-pusher

    See also

    * (aviation) tractor

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