Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who brawls; a noisy fellow; a wrangler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One that brawls; wrangler.
- noun (Law) one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
brawls , engages in noisy, unseemly fights.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls)
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Examples
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The original Karateka was what might loosely be termed a brawler, and saw you travelling deep into the heart of a forbidding oriental fortress to rescue a captured princess.
Archive 2008-07-01 Greg Tannahill 2008
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I can name four people who are closely associated with Mayor Fenty publicly, and only one of them helps him politically, even marginally: Consigliore Peter Nickles; Chancellor Michelle Rhee; Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity brother Sinclair Skinner; and Ron Moten, self-described 'brawler' and Fenty-described 'great Washingtonian.'
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Almost two decades after Moten was jailed for selling crack in Petworth, the community activist and self-described "brawler" is emerging as an influential force in the race between Fenty and D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C.
Peaceoholics' Moten, a Fenty ally, emerges as a force in D.C. mayoral race 2010
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Almost two decades after Moten was jailed for selling crack in Petworth, the community activist and self-described "brawler" is emerging as an influential force in the race between Fenty and D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C.
Peaceoholics' Moten, a Fenty ally, emerges as a force in D.C. mayoral race 2010
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And Fenty has publicly praised Ron Moten -- the Peaceoholics founder and bare-knuckle "brawler" who benefited from millions in city contracts under Fenty -- as a "great Washingtonian."
Gray, Fenty scramble for ethical high ground in D.C. mayoral race 2010
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Almost two decades after Moten was jailed for selling crack in Petworth, the community activist and self-described "brawler" is emerging as an influential force in the race between Fenty and D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C.
Peaceoholics' Moten, a Fenty ally, emerges as a force in D.C. mayoral race 2010
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But she dangerously dismisses racism as a factor in drawing white male voters to Hillary Clinton's campaign in her New York Times op-ed essay this week Instead she endorses Clinton's archetype as a "brawler" who gets "down with the boys". as a model for women candidates in the future.
Tom Hayden: Not The Time To Celebrate Clinton As Brawler 2008
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As for the gameplay, senior producer Jeronimo Barrera took the "brawler" genre -- 2-D fighting games like Double Dragon that had become passe -- and spectacularly reinvented it by incorporating advances from its more recent titles, most notably the ability to give orders to one's fellow gang members.
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A throwback middle linebacker, Erickson's nose for the ball and love of contact make him the kind of brawler who would thrive in football's leather helmet era.
unknown title 2009
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We hear there's some kind of brawler customisation and multiplayer combat - and could that be a Metroid influence in the second screen below?
Cubed3.com News 2009
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