push-up

UK: /ˈpʊʃʌp/ US: (pŏŏsh′up′)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

ˈpush-ˌup,  n. [countable]

1. an exercise in which a person lies facedown with the hands and palms down under the shoulders and raises and lowers the body using only the arms.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

push-up  (pŏŏsh′up′), n. 

1. an exercise in which a person, keeping a prone position with the hands palms down under the shoulders, the balls of the feet on the ground, and the back straight, pushes the body up and lets it down by an alternate straightening and bending of the arms.

adj. 

2. Clothing (of a brassiere) having padding and usually underwires in the lower part of the cups so as to raise the breasts and make them seem fuller.
3. Clothing (of a sleeve) made to be pushed up the arm, away from the wrist or elbow, so as to create a puffed or creased fullness.

• noun, nominal use of verb, verbal phrase push up 1905–10

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

push-up noun

1. an exercise in which the body is alternately raised from and lowered to the floor by the arms only, the trunk being kept straight with the toes and hands resting on the floor
   Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): press-up