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Definition of Thrust ahead
1. Verb. Push one's way. "She barged into the meeting room"
Generic synonyms: Belt Along, Bucket Along, Cannonball Along, Hasten, Hie, Hotfoot, Pelt Along, Race, Rush, Rush Along, Speed, Step On It
Also: Barge In
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrust Ahead
Literary usage of Thrust ahead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Naval Architecture for Use of Officers of the Royal Navy by William Henry White (1900)
"By making one propeller deliver its thrust ahead and the other astern, a ship
can be made to turn nearly on her centre without headway; ..."
2. Journal of Social Science: Containing the Transactions of the American by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, American Social Science Association, Frederick Stanley Root (1886)
"And, surely, the interests which the world has at stake in the professions demands
that they shall be thrust ahead and kept ahead. ..."
3. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association, Isaac Franklin Russell (1888)
"And, surely, the interests which the world has at stake in the professions demands
that they shall be thrust ahead and kept ahead. ..."
4. My Winter on the Nile by Charles Dudley Warner (1880)
"No sooner does a dragoman get in his trunk than another is thrust ahead of it,
and others are hurled on top, till the whole ..."
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