"push it" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-push it.ogg [Australia] Forms: pushes it [present, singular, third-person], pushing it [participle, present], pushed it [participle, past], pushed it [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} push it (third-person singular simple present pushes it, present participle pushing it, simple past and past participle pushed it)
  1. (idiomatic) To make an extraordinary or risky effort; to behave in a way which tests the limits; to expect too much. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: push one's luck
    Sense id: en-push_it-en-verb-2BhRdGzD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with placeholder "it"

Inflected forms

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