push around

1. 1.

   be bossy towards

   “Her big brother always bullied her when she was young”

   Synonymsstrong-armbullybrowbeatbullyragballyragboss aroundhector

   Broaderintimidate

   Narrowertyrannize

Questions about push around

What does push around mean?

push around means "be bossy towards".

What is another word for push around?

Close synonyms include strong-arm, bully, browbeat, bullyrag, ballyrag. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is push around a common word?

push around is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.