Verb: push around
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Repeatedly tell (someone) what to do in an overbearing, domineering, or intimidating way
"The team leader constantly pushed around the new employees";
- strong-arm, bully, browbeat, bullyrag [N. Amer, informal], ballyrag [N. Amer, informal], boss around [informal], hector, boss, push about [informal]
Derived forms: pushes around, pushing around, pushed around
Type of: intimidate