Complete Definition of "push the envelope"

English
Etymology
From the boundary line on a graph of an aircraft's capabilities, especially those of height and speed.

Intransitive verb
to push the envelope

  1. idiom to go beyond established limits; to pioneer

pl:push the envelope

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