push-startTranslate push-start | into French | into Spanish Definition of push-start verb [with object] start (a motor vehicle) by pushing it in order to make the engine turn: the bus had been push-started once by the passengers noun an act of push-starting a motor vehicle: a push start is required to get some of the veteran motorbikes goingpush-start in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of push-start in the US English dictionary