English
pushdown
From push + down; by analogy with a spring-loaded stack of plates in a cafeteria.
Today it means
adj Describing a stack in which items are removed in a LIFO manner from the end at which they were added.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “pushdown”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / pushdown