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Noun: pencil pusher
Usage: N. Amer, informal (elsewhere: penpusher)
  1. A clerk who does boring paperwork
    "He felt like a pencil pusher in his monotonous office job";
    - penpusher [Brit, informal], pen-pusher [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: pencil pushers

Type of: clerk