Push
Push verb - Sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs).
Usage example: The guy hanging around the school is pushing drugs
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The people who push this theory the most are either not very knowledgeable about the subject, or they're trying to sell you something themselves.
Source: Withholding the Cure -
The problem is that he feels the need to get in your way and push you back towards town if you try to walk past him just so that he can sell them to you, whether you buy his stuff or not.
Source: NPC Roadblock - Every so often, promotions will give a rookie wrestler a massive push to sell him as a "young, uncannily talented phenom", with a major part of the push involving having the rookie defeat a couple well-established main eventers or former world champions.
Source: Sacrificial Lion
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