push one's way

English

Verb

push one's way (third-person singular simple present pushes one's way, present participle pushing one's way, simple past and past participle pushed one's way)

  1. (idiomatic) to make one's way by pushing.
    • 1958 February, Arthur F. Beckenham, “A Journey in the Belgian Congo”, in Railway Magazine, page 125:
      As soon as we had come to a stand in Kamina Station, a swarm of porters pushed their way into the compartment to get my luggage. I selected one, and ordered the others out, and then detrained.
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