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pencil pusher

noun

Etymology

US origin, 1881.

Definitions

  1. One who does routine office work

    One who does routine office work; someone involved mainly in paperwork.

    • “[…] I don't have her creative genius or her version. I'm a numbers man, like my father. A pencil pusher, as Amanda said.” With no balls, he added silently.
    • The internal investigator for the Macon Police Department had the dour, lifeless personality of a career pencil pusher.

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