pedal-pusher

See also: pedal pusher

English

Noun

pedal-pusher (plural pedal-pushers)

1. Alternative form of pedal pusher (“cyclist”).
   • 1883 September 21, “Springfield Bicycle Tournament”, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat, volume 9, number 123, St. Louis, Mo., page 4, column 3:

     The pedal-pushers put in for all they were worth, Higham and Keene leading, but Prince put in a tremendous spurt, which brought him up to the leaders, when shouts of “Prince,” “Prince,” went up, but Prince was pocketed, although it looked as though he might have won had he kept up his pace, but he fell back to fourth place, Higham taking first, Keene second, James third, Prince fourth and Morgan last.

   • 1885 June 20, “Our Cycling Corner”, in The Croydon Advertiser and Surrey County Reporter, number 863, page 3, column 6:

     We have had some splendid rideable weather this last week, and we doubt not that the pedal-pushers of this district have not failed to take advantage of it.

   • 2021 May 21, Brigitte Pellerin, “C’mon – millionaires deserve help too”, in Ottawa Citizen, page A9:

     Drivers sitting in their air-conditioned cars then have to wait several seconds while these obnoxious pedal-pushers get a move on.

Noun

pedal-pusher

1. Attributive form of pedal pushers (“type of trousers”).
   • 1989, Patricia Young, “Holiday in Scotland”, in The Mad and Beautiful Mothers, Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Ragweed Press, →ISBN, page 17:

     Thieving hands clenched inside pedal-pusher pockets, I heard with sinking heart how in ice cold water they washed their own clothes.

   • 2004, Martha Harris, “Man or Beast”, in Half-way There: Based on a True Story, Bookman Publishing & Marketing, →ISBN, page 8:

     Going to the porch where Jimmy kept his squirrels, I pulled out a few old acorns, which I’d picked up on the trail, from my pedal-pusher pockets.

   • 2008, Lesley Kagen, “Sneaky”, in Land of a Hundred Wonders, New American Library, →ISBN, page 18:

     “Ya got the egg order?” he asks, coming to a stop at the bottom of Miz Jessie Tanner’s drive-up. I slide the napkin out of my pedal-pusher pocket and read out loud, “Six doz.”

   • 2022, GlenScott Thomas Copper, “Friendly Deceptions at Berghoff’s”, in Angels Dance on the Head of a Pin‎^[1], LifeRich Publishing, The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., →ISBN:

     “Where is your appointment?” I asked. She took a scrap of paper out of her pedal-pusher pockets and read, “Seventeen West Adams. You think you can help me find it?”