push together

verb

To surreptitiously and/or inadvertently set up two people to hook up as partners in romance, business, crime, etc.

“The more you try to break Romeo and Juliet apart, the more you'll push them together.”

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Meanings

verbpush together (third-person singular simple present pushes together, present participle pushing together, simple past and past participle pushed together)

present singular third person pushes together · participle present pushing together · participle past pushed together · past pushed together

  1. transitiveTo surreptitiously and/or inadvertently set up two people to hook up as partners in romance, business, crime, etc.

    The more you try to break Romeo and Juliet apart, the more you'll push them together.

    1 more example

    I think we pushed them together,' Rita said... "If we'd been less opposed, less angry, perhaps they mightn't have felt they had anything to prove, and we might still have them.

    2014, Hilary Norman, Fear and Loathing: A detective mystery set in Miami
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APA

push together. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/push%20together

MLA

“push together.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/push%20together. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “push together,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/push%20together.

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