pushing the green thread

a colloquialism used in phased array ultrasonic testing describing the act of maximizing the signal amplitude over a range of angles during calibration

Yo, did you push the green thread? Your sensitivity is whack at 60°
Took me forever to push the green thread on this notch. Sigh.
What’s the point of pushing the green thread for an ‘S’?

by mm_are_better May 22, 2024

Grandma-Push

The act of making room in your stomach via burping.

After she performed the Grandma-Push, she had room for thirds.

by Capt_Froggerson October 18, 2022

push something

extol something, what sales 'people' do... (this term was actually used by my grandfather, 40 years ago!)

as soon as i walk in the door, somebody calls me to push something
the telephone rang and it was somebody pushing something

by michael foolsley November 27, 2009

pushing cheese

Acting confident and know that your up, act with swag and coolness.

Hey guys, I'm pushing cheese today and y'all not

by Sadjhj April 11, 2024

git-pushed

Being in the state of having pushed all of one's locally committed software code into the central upstream repository.

Curt: I just finished the feature. Rob: Are you git-pushed? Curt: yep.

by calwords2020 May 12, 2020

hike and push

When you're walking and you hike one leg up and push out a fart.

My sister-in-law walked past and did a hike and push.

by Sam-n-Jen November 04, 2007

Hawaiian suck n push

When you're squatting on the hotel toilet sucking his dick while you squeeze out the pork and poi from last night's luau.

Was giving him the old hawaiian suck n push when my kids walked in, And I had to explain this is the only way mommy can poop.

by PseudAwesonym March 17, 2024