pushover

[poo sh-oh-ver] /ˈpʊʃˌoʊ vər/

noun

Informal. anything done easily.

Informal. an easily defeated person or team.

Informal. a person who is easily persuaded, influenced, or seduced.

Rocketry. a displacement in a horizontal direction of the trajectory of a missile or rocket.

Aeronautics, push-down.

Origin

1905-10, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase push over

Examples from the web for pushover

But they also know that you are a pushover who has no clue that their culture is far more draconian.
The developing-country polluters, however, were not a pushover.
When you have a coach who is a pushover, it's sometimes up to the players to take charge.
She has a lot going on in her life and does not seem to be a pushover for the doctor.
As for the public, it often is a pushover for the glamour of the stage and the romances of show folk.
The building pushover curve, which represents building structural characteristics.
The pushover approach is an accepted industry practice for estimating the inelastic response of structures to seismic loading.
In general, you probably want to come across as neither a dictator nor a pushover.

British Dictionary definitions for pushover

/ˈpʊʃˌəʊvə/

noun (informal)

something that is easily achieved or accomplished

a person, team, etc, that is easily taken advantage of or defeated

Word Origin and History for pushover

also push-over, 1900 of jobs or tasks; 1922 of persons (bad boxers and easy women), from push (v.) + over (adv.).

Slang definitions & phrases for pushover

modifier

: He wasn't a pushover kind of cat

noun

A person who is easily defeated, imposed upon, convinced, etc: an eight-round preliminary with some pushover (1926+)
Punchboard, roundheel (1906+)
An easy job or task; cinch, duck soup: Two ways to do it. One was a pushover (1906+)