push together
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[edit]Verb
[edit]push together (third-person singular simple present pushes together, present participle pushing together, simple past and past participle pushed together)
- (transitive) To surreptitiously and/or inadvertently set up two people to hook up as partners in romance, business, crime, etc.
- The more you try to break Romeo and Juliet apart, the more you'll push them together.
- 2014, Hilary Norman, Fear and Loathing: A detective mystery set in Miami[1]:
- I think we pushed them together,' Rita said... "If we'd been less opposed, less angry, perhaps they mightn't have felt they had anything to prove, and we might still have them.