Little Douglas, said to be pushed (3)
I believe the answer is:
dug
'pushed' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with social activities as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'little douglas said' is the wordplay.
'little' says to take the initial letters.
'said' becomes 'ug' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The initial letter of 'douglas' is 'd'.
'd'+'ug'='DUG'
'to be' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dug that I've seen before include "Delved; teat" , "Used a spade" , "Udder or teat" , "Breast of female mammal" , "Excavated" .)