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pusher

1. Informal a person who sells illegal drugs, esp narcotics such as heroin and morphine
2. 
a. a type of aircraft propeller placed behind the engine
b. a type of aircraft using such a propeller
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ISLAMABAD -- Islamabad Police here on Wednesday arrested 13 outlaws including nine drug pushers from various areas of the city and recovered narcotics, wine, fake currency and weapons from them.
13 outlaws held; fake currency, narcotics recovered
Cruz town, another suspected drug pusher, Von Ryan Castillo (not related to Rolando) was killed in a shootout with police officers on Wednesday evening.
2 suspected drug pushers shot dead in Laguna
During operation, nine-kilogram heroin worth millions of rupees was recovered and a drug pusher was arrested.The recovered heroin was confiscated and the detainee was handed over to police which after registering a case against him have started an investigation.
Drug pusher held with 9kg heroin in Peshawar
A drug pusher Arif Masih was arrested by the Industrial-Area police after recovery of 195 gram heroin from his possession.
Seven drug pushers held with narcotics in Capital
In northern Metro Manila, eight alleged pushers, four of whom are included in the drug watchlist, were arrested in three separate stings in Valenzuela and Navotas sinceSunday night.
P3.4-million shabu seized from Mindanao drug gang man
Police had not linked the incident to any of the city's canal deaths,The Sunday Timesreports, but the paper describe the case as "the first evidence of a "Manchester Pusher"".
Is the Manchester Pusher real? After 76 corpses recovered from waterways, cyclist tells how he was lucky to escape alive; The dad said he almost drowned after his legs became tangled in his bike at the Bridgewater Canal towpath, close to Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium, it was reported
(1), more often, a cylinder-shaped stent pusher of which diameter is more than 7Fr would be hard to push into bile duct via papilla.
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Dozer Fever - Coin Pusher Game is downloadable for free at Google Play.
Notification for Full Game Life Now Added in Dozer Fever - Coin Pusher Game
These dedicated snow pushers offer aggregates producers an alternative to buckets and traditional windrow plowing for providing winter maintenance of parking lots, haul roads and roadways.
Doosan snow attachments are alternative to buckets
As a positive plug or pusher with negative tooling, syntactic foam is used to pre-stretch the polymer sheet to provide better material distribution and eliminate thin spots and webbing while providing an opportunity to downgauge the starting sheet thickness.
Optimize cut-sheet forming with syntactic foam plug assist
'Coin Pusher Mafia' is a smartphone application that is ideally suited to our 'GAMEWAVE' social gaming platform for smartphones," says Shinichi Saijo, President & CEO, CyberAgent America, Inc.
CyberAgent Releases 'Coin Pusher Mafia' for iOS Platforms in Japan and the U.S
A new, more ergonomic handle has been added to the super power pusher pedestrian-operated, battery-powered load pusher.
Ergonomic handle on pusher helps operators move up to 150,000 pounds

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