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push in

verb, noun — 6 senses

push in

verbalso spelled push-in
1

Idiomatic To jump the queue, especially in a forceful manner.

  • Don't push in! Go to the back of the queue!
2

Broadcasting, Cinematography, Film, Media, Television To move a camera closer to its subject (resulting in a similar effect as zooming in, in which the camera is still but the focal length is adjusted).

3

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, in.

Related terms
queue-jumper

push in

noun
1

Broadcasting, Cinematography, Film, Media, Television A shot in which the camera physically moves towards the subject.

Antonyms
pull back

push-in

noun
1

Broadcasting, Cinematography, Film, Media, Television Alternative Alternative form of push in.

  • The smaller frame means that Hill uses a lot of tight one-shots, mixed in with more expressive images like an endless sea of skaters fleeing from cops or a slow push-in on Stevie and Ian having an uncomfortable conversation while playing video games on their couch.15 October 2018, Jesse Hassenger, AV Club Jonah Hill makes his auspicious if uneven filmmaking debut with a Mid90s nostalgia triphttps://web.archive.org/web/20181015200214/https://film.avclub.com/jonah-hill-makes-his-auspicious-if-uneven-filmmaking-de-1829744755
2

Slang A mugging in which a robber group of robbers waits in a hallway for the victim to come home and then pushes them into the apartment.

  • The three of us were hanging out rapping in Hamilton projects with some niggahs Pimp had got tight with on Rikers Island. Them fools had done a push-in and took over some old lady's apartment, and they were in there cutting crack and mixing weight.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for push in and push-in.